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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] FamilyBinns 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] References1. ^{{Rayment-hc|g|1|date=March 2012}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite book|last1=Stenton|first1=Michael|last2=Lees|first2=Stephens|title=Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979|year=1981|publisher=The Harvester Press|location=Brighton|isbn=0-85527-335-6|page=29}} 3. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1099075.ece|title=Obituary: Graham Binns|date=22 May 2003|work=The Times|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 4. ^{{Cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |origyear=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=225}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue= 37238|date= 24 August 1945|page=4294|city=London}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge50/i09.htm|title=UK General Election results February 1950|work=Richard Kimber's political science resources|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 7. ^{{Cite news|title=Election Items|date=17 February 1950|work=The Times|page=4|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 8. ^{{Cite news|title=Business appointments|date=2 April 1958|work=The Times|page=6|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 9. ^{{Cite news|title=Public Work Loan Board Changes|date=5 November 1970|work=The Times|page=23|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 10. ^{{London Gazette|issue= 42231|date= 27 December 1960|page=8898|supp=y|city=London}} 11. ^{{Cite news|title=Deaths|date=28 April 1975|work=The Times|page=24|accessdate=8 August 2010}} 12. ^1 {{Cite book|title=The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983|edition=2nd|year=1984|origyear=1983|publisher=Times Books|location=London|isbn=0-7230-0257-6|page=48}} 13. ^{{Cite news|title=Election Choices|date=23 August 1965|work=The Times|page=5|accessdate=8 August 2010}} External links
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