Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner, 1st Baronet (8 September 1847 – 24 February 1927) was an

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from

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. His interests spread across

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, and extended to the

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. He was also prominent in the civic affairs of Liverpool, where he was a long-serving

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, he was

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, and was one of the city's

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(MPs) for nearly 20 years.

Early life

Harmood-Banner was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, the second son of accountant Harmood Walter Banner from

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in Cheshire. He was educated at

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Career

He entered the family accountancy firm of Harmood Banner & Son in

, becoming a partner in 1870. In 1883 he assumed the position of deputy chairman of Pearson and Knowles, a coal and iron conglomerate based in Warrington. For the next 20 years he specialised in accounting work acting as a financial advisor and auditor of a number of major companies. He was elected MP for Liverpool Everton in a by-election in 1905, sitting until 1924. He was a

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and deputy lieutenant for Cheshire and was appointed

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for 1902. He also served as Lord Mayor of the City of Liverpool for 1912, was knighted in July 1913 and created a baronet in 1924. In later life he served on the boards of a number of companies and on several government committees. He retired in 1925 and died on 24 February 1927 at his home, Ingmire Hall, in Sedbergh, Yorkshire. He was buried in

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in Liverpool. Harmood-Banner gravestone, Toxteth Park Cemetery

Private life

He married twice, firstly Elizabeth, the daughter and coheir of Thomas Knowles, MP of Wigan, with whom he had four sons and two daughters and secondly in 1908 the widow Ella Wilstone, daughter of John Ernest Herbert Linford of Thorpe, Norfolk. He was succeeded by his son Harmood Harmood-Banner.

References

* "Banner, Sir John Sutherland Harmood-, first baronet (1847–1927)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47601 . (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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