John Binns (writer)
John Binns may refer to: * John Binns (Irish politician) (died 1804), Irish politician * John Binns (journalist) (1772–1860), Irish journalist *John Binns (cricketer) (1870–1934), English cricketer * John Binns (British politician) (1914–1986), British politician *Jack R. Binns Jack Robert Binns (born May 13, 1933, in Oregon) was the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1980 to 1981. Binns is a 1956 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Now retired from the Foreign Service, Binns is an author and resides in Tucson, ...

John Binns (Irish Politician)
John Binns (died 1804) was an Irish Patriot politician and a member of Dublin Corporation. Binns was a wholesale silk merchant of Dame Street, Dublin, working in partnership with William Cope. Both Binns and Cope became members of Dublin Corporation as representatives of the Guild of Merchants alongside such notable figures as James Napper Tandy and Lundy Foot, but whereas Cope's initial support for reformist opposition politics gave way to a strong reaction against Catholic emancipation, Binns allied with Tandy to push for radical reform of the Irish political system and they organised an assembly of Volunteers to lobby for Catholic emancipation in 1784. The same year, the Freeman's Journal reported an entirely fictitious plot by the Hell Fire Club Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. The name most commonly refers to Francis Dashwood's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wyco ...
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John Binns (journalist)
John Binns (22 December 1772 – 16 June 1860) was a Dublin-born American journalist, the son of ironmonger John Binns (who died in a shipwreck aged about 30 in 1774) and his wife Mary Pemberton. A grand-nephew of Irish Patriot politician and member of Dublin Corporation John Binns, he and his older brother Benjamin moved to London and became involved with city's federation of democratic clubs, the London Corresponding Society (LCS). Rising to the society's executive council and chairing its general committee in 1795, Binns pressed the society to mobilise mass support to achieve parliamentary reform (later admitting that revolution was his true object). In October 1795, with William Duane, Binns chaired a “monster meeting" at which crowds estimated at upwards of 200,000 heard Binns and veteran reformers Joseph Priestley, Charles James Fox, and John Thelwall call for an end to the war with the French Republic, and for universal manhood suffrage and annual parliaments. Three ...
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John Binns (cricketer)
John Binns (31 March 1870 – 8 December 1934) was an English cricketer, who played one first-class match for Yorkshire in 1898. Born in Woodhouse Carr, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Binns was a lower order right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, and was called up for the match against Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ... at Grace Road, Leicester, after the regular Yorkshire wicket-keeper, David Hunter, was injured in the previous match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley. Binns made four runs in his only innings, and stumped three Leicestershire batsmen. But Hunter's more regular deputy, Arthur Bairstow, was called in for the following game and Binns did not play first-class cricket again. He died in Leeds in December 1934. References ...
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John Binns (British Politician)
John Binns (June 1914 – 6 August 1986) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for the marginal Keighley constituency from 1964 to 1970, when it was won by Conservative Joan Hall Joan Lynette Hall (née Bullock) (born 22 December 1946) is a former member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving in the electoral district of Coles from 1993 to 2002 and the renamed electoral district of Morialta from 2002 to 20 .... During the Parliamentary debate on the 1968 Race Relations Act he refused to support the government, calling the bill 'just cant and hypocrisy'.The People July 14, 1968 p.12 and Aberdeen Evening Express 10 April 1968. p.7. Binns contested Keighley again in the February 1974 election for the Campaign for Social Democracy, but finished fourth behind the Liberal candidate. References * External links * 1914 births 1986 deaths Amalgamated Engineering Union-sponsored MPs Labour Party (UK) MPs for English con ...
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