John Harmood-Banner

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

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

[1] He entered the family accountancy firm of Harmood Banner & Son in Liverpool, 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.