Joseph Binns, CBE (19 March 1900 – 23 April 1975)[1] was a British Labour Party politician.
[2] He was educated at elementary schools and at Manchester College of Technology, and became a consulting engineer,[2] working for ICI.
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.
[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.