| Honorific Prefix: | Colonel |
| John Banks Brady | |
| Office: | Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for Bulawayo East |
| Term Start: | 14 April 1939 |
| Term End: | 25 April 1946 |
| Predecessor: | New constituency |
| Successor: | David Wood Young |
| Office1: | Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for Bulawayo North |
| Alongside1: | Allan Ross Welsh |
| Term Start1: | 6 September 1933 |
| Term End1: | 14 April 1939 |
| Predecessor1: | Sir Robert Hudson |
| Successor1: | Hugh Beadle |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1875 |
| Birth Place: | Ennistymon, County Clare, United Kingdom |
| Death Place: | Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia |
| Resting Place: | Bulawayo General Cemetery |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College Dublin |
| Party: | United Rhodesia Party Rhodesia Party |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1899–1937 1939–1943 |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Unit: | King's Royal Rifle Corps Southern Rhodesian Defence Force |
| Battles: | South African War World War I World War II |
Colonel John Banks Brady (7 November 1875 – 13 February 1952) was a British-born Southern Rhodesian soldier, educator and politician who served as the member for Bulawayo North along with Allan Ross Welsh from 1933 to 1935 and later Bulawayo East in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly.[1]
John Banks Brady was born on 7 November 1875 in Ennistymon to national bank manager John Henry Banks and Isabella Banks. He was educated at Midleton College and Trinity College Dublin. He is of Anglo-Irish descent.[2]
John Banks Brady arrived in South Africa in 1900 to fight in the Second Boer War. He remained in South Africa to pursue his career. In 1909, he went to Southern Rhodesia as a result of J. B. M. Hertzog's pro-Afrikaner and anti-British policies. Brady became the Inspector of Schools in Southern Rhodesia.[3] On the outbreak of war in 1914, Brady was recommissioned as a Lieutenant in the reserves, and then promoted to captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in November 1914
Brady was the headmaster of the Milton School in Bulawayo from 1925 to 1930. He later entered politics and was elected the member of parliament for Bulawayo North along with Allan Ross Welsh in the 1933 Southern Rhodesian general election. Upon his retirement from the Army in 1937, he was promoted to Colonel. He was later elected the member of parliament for Bulawayo East in the 1939 election, a post he served in until 1946.
With the outbreak of World War II, Brady returned to active service as a Military Observer and Liaison Officer for Southern Rhodesia to the Middle East Campaign. However, ill-health forced his retirement, and he was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1943 for his service.
Brady died on 13 February 1952 at the age 76 in Bulawayo General Hospital from cardiac syncope and lobar pneumonia.
| Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) | 1917 | ||
| Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) | Military Division, 1943 | ||
| 4 Clasps[4] | |||
| MID Palm (4) | |||
| Coronation 1937 | |||
| Efficiency Decoration (ED) | "Southern Rhodesia" Clasp | ||
| 1916 |