Maurice Banks

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Sir Maurice Alfred Lister Banks (11 August 1901 – 11 August 1991) was a British businessman.

Educated at Westminster School in London,{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Banks was a Director of Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd during 1962/3–1963, which became BP Exploration (Associated Holdings) in 1963.{{cite web| url=https://scottishshale.co.uk/organisations/scottish-oil-companies/oakbank-oil-co-ltd-1886/ | title=Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd. (1886) | work=Scottish oil companies | publisher=Scottish Shale | location=UK | accessdate=4 September 2021 }} He was also a Director of Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd over the same period.{{cite web| url=https://www.scottishshale.co.uk/organisations/scottish-oil-companies/pumpherston-oil-co-ltd/ | title=Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd. | work=Scottish oil companies | publisher=Scottish Shale | location=UK | accessdate=4 September 2021 }} He was also Chairman of the Laird Group.{{cite web| url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-december-12-1972-award-for-sir-maurice-banks-the-1972-businessman-88283335.html | title=1972 Award for Sir Maurice Banks | publisher=Alamy | accessdate=4 September 2021 }}

During 1965–66, Banks was President of the British Computer Society.{{cite web| url=https://www.bcs.org/more/about-us/people-and-governance/meet-our-trustees-executives-and-council/bcs-past-presidents/| title=BCS past presidents | publisher=BCS | accessdate=4 September 2021 }}

In the United Kingdom 1971 New Year's Honours List, Banks was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II{{cite news| url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45302/page/1343/data.pdf | title=Honours and Awards | newspaper=The London Gazette | number=45302 | page=1343 | location=UK | date=12 February 1971 | format=PDF }} as a Knight Bachelor for services to patent law.{{cite journal| url=https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/DIAD/id/5426/ | title=News | journal=Design Journal | issue=266 | pages=21–22 | location=UK | date=February 1971 | publisher=VADS }} In 1972, he received the UK Businessman of the Year award, presented by Lord George-Brown at the Savoy Hotel in central London.

Maurice Banks was married to a United States citizen, Anne Banks. Health advocate and activist Joan Banks Dunlop (1934–2012) was their daughter.{{Cite web| title=Joan Banks Dunlop papers | publisher=Smith College | location=USA | work=Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History | url=https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/1190 | accessdate=4 September 2021 }}