Sir John Eldon Bankes (17 April 1854 – 31 December 1947) was an English judge who worked in the Court of Appeal from 1915 to 1927.[1]

He chaired the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms in 1935–1936.[2]

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  1. ^ P. A. Landon, ‘Bankes, Sir John Eldon (1854–1946)’, rev. T. G. Watkin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Feb 2015.
  2. ^ Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms (Bankes Commission): Reports and Submissions