Joseph Binns,

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(19 March 1900 – 23 April 1975) was a British Labour Party politician. Binns was the son of

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Joseph Binns, who later became

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. He was educated at elementary schools and at Manchester College of Technology, and became a

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, working for ICI. He was a member of Greenwich Borough Council from 1932 to 1949, and was Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee of the

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from 1945 to 1949. At the

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he was elected as the

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(MP) for Gillingham in

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. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the

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, from 1946 to 1947. He was defeated at the 1950 general election, after catching influenza during the campaign, and was never returned to the

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. Binns was appointed as a Commissioner of the

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in 1948, a role held until 1972, becoming deputy chairman of the board in 1958 and chairman in 1970. He was made a

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(CBE) in the

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1961.

Family

Binns married Daisy Graham in 1924, and they had two sons: Graham and Joseph Christopher. 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. Another son, Joseph Binns (born 1931), was a Labour Party councillor in Greenwich who stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on three occasions: as a Labour candidate in

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at the 1964 general election and in his father's old constituency of Gillingham in 1966, and as a

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(SDP) candidate in

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at the 1983 general election.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Binns, Joseph 1900 births 1975 deaths Councillors in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1945–1950 Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Labour Party (UK) councillors Members of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough Council