Joseph Binns, CBE (19 March 1900 – 23 April 1975) [1] was a British Labour Party politician.
Binns was the son of Alderman Joseph Binns, who later became Lord Mayor of Manchester. [2] He was educated at elementary schools and at Manchester College of Technology, and became a consulting engineer, [2] working for ICI. [3]
He was a member of Greenwich Borough Council from 1932 to 1949, and was Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee of the Metropolitan Boroughs from 1945 to 1949. [2] At the 1945 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gillingham in Kent. [4] [5] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Supply, John Wilmot, from 1946 to 1947. He was defeated at the 1950 general election, [6] after catching influenza during the campaign, [7] and was never returned to the House of Commons.
Binns was appointed as a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board in 1948, a role held until 1972, becoming deputy chairman of the board in 1958 [8] and chairman in 1970. [2] [9] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours 1961. [10]
Binns married Daisy Graham in 1924, [2] and they had two sons: Graham and Joseph Christopher. [11] Graham Binns (1925–2003) was a broadcaster and arts campaigner who served for five years as chairman of the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles. [3] Another son, Joseph Binns (born 1931), [12] was a Labour Party councillor in Greenwich who stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on three occasions: as a Labour candidate in Bromley at the 1964 general election and in his father's old constituency of Gillingham in 1966, [13] and as a Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in Birmingham Edgbaston at the 1983 general election. [12]
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