Desmond Anderson Harvie Banks, Baron Banks of Kenton (23 October 1918 – 15 June 1997) was a British Liberal Party politician. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s and a third party
Banks was born at Ascot in Surrey. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. He was educated at prep school in Harrow and University College School in Hampstead. The Gower' redirects here - for the geographical area of that name see Gower peninsula University College School', known generally as UCS Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Royal Artillery. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Royal Artillery, is the common name for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, is an Arm of the British Army. In 1948 he married Barbara Wells who in 1987 was awarded the OBE for services to the Women's Liberal Federation. Banks was a life insurance broker and pensions consultant.
He was Chairman of the Liberal Party Executive from 1961-63 and again in 1969-70 and President of the Liberal Party in 1968-69. In 1972, he was awarded the CBE for political service in the New Years Honours list[1] He was created a life peer in 1974. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. [2] In the House of Lords he was Liberal Deputy Chief Whip from 1977-83. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" Whip is a role in party-based politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature
Banks had joined the Liberals while at school. He joined the staff at Liberal Party HQ in 1949 and was at one time editor of the party newspaper Liberal News. He first stood as a parliamentary candidate in the 1950 election in Harrow East[3], then in St Ives in 1955 election[4] and Hertfordshire South West in the 1959 election[5]. Results |} Total votes cast 28771124 All parties shown Conservative total includes Ulster Unionists Votes summary Seats summary Harrow East is a Harrow, London Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. St Ives is a County constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Results |} Total votes cast 26759729 All parties shown Conservatives include National Liberal Party and Ulster Unionists Votes South West Hertfordshire is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Background Following the Suez Crisis in 1956 Anthony Eden the Conservative Prime Minister became unpopular and resigned the following year He was sometime speechwriter for Jo Grimond and a frequent contributor to Liberal News as well as author of many pamphlets and policy papers[6]. Joseph "Jo" Grimond Baron Grimond ( 29 July 1913 &ndash 24 October 1993) was a British Politician, leader of
In 1952, together with Peter Grafton who had been Liberal parliamentary candidate in Bromley in 1950 in opposition to Harold Macmillan, Banks co-founded the Radical Reform Group, a social liberal pressure group within the Liberal Party to prevent what many saw as a rightward drift by the party, and its potential capture by the economic liberals. Bromley is a former Borough constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. (Maurice Harold Macmillan 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 &ndash 29 December 1986 was a British Conservative Politician The Radical Reform Group was a pressure group inside the Liberal Party, set up in 1952 to campaign for Social liberal and Keynesian economic approaches Social liberalism, also called new liberalism (as it was originally termed high liberalism radical liberalism, modern liberalism, or Economic liberalism is the Economic component of Classical liberalism. The Group campaigned under the slogan ‘social reform without socialism. ’
Banks was a strong pro-European, a founder member and one time chairman of the Liberal European Action Group and was President of the British Council of the European Movement from 1986-94. The European Movement is an international Lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and private individuals desiring to work towards the construction
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Bibliography
- Vernon Bogdanor, Liberal Party Politics, Oxford University Press, 1983
- Graham Lippiatt, entry on Banks in Dictionary of Liberal Biography, Brack et al (eds. ): Politico’s, 1998
- Gary Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South West England since 1918, University of Exeter Press, 2000
- Donald Wade & Desmond Banks, The Political Insight of Elliott Dodds, Liberal Pulications Dept. , 1977
- Alan Watkins, The Liberal Dilemma, MacGibbon & Key, 1966
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