Donald Banks

Donald Banks
Born	31 March 1891 St Peter Port, Guernsey
Died	11 July 1975 New Forest, Hampshire
Occupation	Civil Servant, Company Director
Spouse(s)	(1) Dorothea Webster, (2) Elizabeth Bradley

Major-General Sir Thomas MacDonald "Donald" Banks KCB DSO MC TD (1891–1975) was a British Army officer, senior civil servant and a founder member and first Chairman of the Guernsey Society.

Banks was born in Guernsey on 31 March 1891, the son of Thomas Brownsort Banks, a stationer, and Margaret Elizabeth (née Roebuck). He had an elder sister, Blanche, and a younger brother, Maurice Rowley.

He married Dorothea Webster, and they had one daughter, Dawn Louise, born in 1932. They lived in Lymington, Hampshire. Dorothea died in 1947.

In 1948,Sir Donald married Elizabeth Bradley of Lymington, and they had two children together. They moved to Cadnam Lodge in the New Forest, where he kept a herd of Guernsey cattle.

He attended Elizabeth College, Guernsey between 1899 and 1909, where he was in the Shooting VIII 1908-9.

He entered the Home Civil Service in 1909 in the Exchequer and Audit Department. In 1914, he passed the Home Civil Service Examination, and was appointed to the Secretary's Office of the General Post Office (GPO). He was Private Secretary to the Secretary of the GPO, and between 1920 and 1923 was Private Secretary to four Postmasters-General in succession. In 1924, he was appointed Deputy Controller of the Post Office Savings Bank, and became Controller in 1931. He became first Director-General of the Post Office in 1934, where he was responsible for the introduction of the emergency service '999', as well as the speaking clock ('TIM'). He was knighted in the New Years’ Honours List of 1935.

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