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'''Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks''', [[King's Counsel|KC]] (26 August 1880<ref>''[[1939 England and Wales Register]]''</ref> – 9 July 1940) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and [[County court|County Court]] judge. He was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)|Swindon]] between 1922–29 and 1931–34.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Obituary: Judge Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks, K.C. |date=11 July 1940|work=The Times|page=7}}</ref>

The son of surgeon [[William Mitchell Banks|Sir William Mitchell Banks]], Banks was born in [[Liverpool]].<ref>''1901 England Census''</ref> He was educated at [[Rugby School|Rugby]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he was senior classical scholar. He was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] by the [[Inner Temple]] in 1905. He [[King's Counsel|took silk]] in 1923, was [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] of [[Wigan]] from 1928 to 1934, and was elected a [[bencher]] of the Inner Temple in 1930.<ref name=":0" />

During the First World War, he enlisted in the 1st/5th Battalion, [[East Surrey Regiment|The East Surrey Regiment]], before being commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve and attached to the 1st/5th [[5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)|Gurkha Rifles]]. He served in India and Mesopotamia, before being appointed as a military censor in the Press Bureau in 1917.<ref name=":0" />

He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for [[Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)|Swindon]] in 1922, serving until being defeated by [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison|Christopher Addison]] in 1929. He was elected again for Swindon in 1931, but stepped down upon his appointment as a [[County court|County Court]] judge in 1934, and held the office until his death in 1940.<ref name=":0" /> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1928.

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* {{Hansard-contribs|mr-reginald-banks|Reginald Banks}}

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