BANKES, GEORGE, third son of Henry Bankes (qv); b. 1 Dec 1787; in school lists 1795,1797,1801,1803; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1805, scholar, matr. Lent 1806; LLB 1812; Fellow of Trin. Hall 19 Feb 1814 -22; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 May 1810, called to bar 2 Jul 1813; Inner Temple 1815; Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 6 May 1815 – Feb 1816; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1822 (occurs in annual lists 1823-8); MP Corfe Castle 13 Feb 1816 - Mar 1823, 23 Feb 1826-32, Dorset from 1841; Recorder of Weymouth from 1823; Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer from 16 Jul 1824; Secretary, Board of Control 1828 - Feb 1830; member, Board of Control Feb - Nov 1830; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Apr - Nov 1830; Judge Advocate-General 28 Feb - Dec 1852; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; chairman, Dorset Quarter Sessions; a Conservative politician; author, The Story of Corfe Castle, 1853; m. 8 Jun 1822 Georgina Charlotte, only child of Adm. of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent GCH MP; d. 6 Jul 1856. DNB.
BANKES, HENRY, only surviving son of Henry Bankes KC MP, Kingston Lacy, Dorset, a Commissioner of Customs, barrister, and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Right Rev. John Wynne DD, Bishop of Bath and Wells; b. 19 Dec 1756; adm. 27 Apr 1767; left Dec 1773; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Dec 1773, matr. Lent 1777; BA and 14th Wrangler 1778; first Chancellor’s Classical Medal 1778; MA 1781; Grand Tour (Italy) 1778-80; MP Corfe Castle 1780 - Jan 1826, Dorset 16 Feb 1826 - 1831; a prominent backbench member of the House of Commons; a Trustee of the British Museum; author, The Civil and Constitutional History of Rome, 1818; m. 18 Aug 1784 Frances, dau. of William Woodley MP, Lieut. -Gov. Leeward Islands; d. 17 Dec 1834. DNB.
BANKES, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Bankes (qv); b.; adm. 12 Apr 1794; in school lists 1795, 1797, 1801; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 22 Jun 1802, matr. Mich. 1805; BA 1806; Ensign, 35th Foot 12 Jun 1806; drowned while on passage to Malta in wreck of HMS Athenienne, on the Esquerries Rocks, near Tunis, 20 Oct 1806.
BANKES, WILLIAM GEORGE HAWTREY, fifth son of George Bankes (qv); b. 11 Sep 1838; adm. (G) 3 Apr 1850; a great friend of Francis Markham (qv), who mentions him frequently in Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. 7 Mar 1856, did not matr.; Cornet, 7th Hussars 3 Mar 1857; d. at Lucknow 6 Apr 1858, from wounds received at Raptee 19 Mar; received posthumous award of Victoria Cross.
BANKES, WILLIAM JOHN, second son of Henry Bankes (qv); b. 11 Dec 1786; adm. 12 Apr 1794; in school lists 1795, 1797, 1801, May 1803; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Jun 1803, aged 16, matr. Lent 1806; BA 1808; MA 1811; MP Truro 2 Jul 1810 -2, Cambridge Univ. 27 Nov 1822-6, Marlborough 23 Mar 1829 -32, Dorset 1832-4; one of Lord Byron’s early friends and “the father of all mischiefs” (see The Works of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, 1898, vol. i, 120, 151, 152); travelled extensively in the Mediterranean and Near East; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1821; inherited Soughton Hall estate, Flintshire 1815; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1829; translated from the Italian an autobiographical memoir of Giovanni Finati, 1830; succeeded to father’s Dorset estates 1834, but his private life gave rise to scandal and he lived permanently abroad after 1840; DL JP Dorset; d. unm. at Venice 15 Apr 1855. DNB.
BANKS, CHARLES EDMUND, son of John Tatam Banks MD MRCP, Louth, Lincs., and Susanna Maria --- (IGI); b. 31 Jan 1832; adm. BB 29 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); the first boy on the foundation of Archbishop Williams who did not wear the purple gown, the use of which had been abolished by Liddell; left Christmas 1847; Steward, Grays’ Inn (1881 Census, then unm. ); d. 1899.
BANKS, COLLINGWOOD, elder son of Joseph Banks MP, Revesby Abbey, Lincs., and his second wife Catherine, widow of Newcomen Wallis, Lincoln, and dau. of --- Collingwood; half-brother of William Banks (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1744/5 (Ludford's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Nov 1751; adm. Middle Temple 2 Nov 1753; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 29 Jan 1755.
Banks, Sir Maurice Alfred Lister, son of Alfred Banks FRCS, of Hadlow Down, Sussex, and Elizabeth Maud, d. of Alexander Davey MD, of Ryde, I. of. Wight; b. 11 Aug. 1901; adm. Sept. 1914 (H); left Dec. 1918; Manch. Coll. of Tech. 1919-22, BSc (1st class hons Applied Chemistry); FRIC MIChemE; BP Co. 1924-67, dep. chairman 1965; chairman Departmental Committee on Patent Law 1967-70; chairman Laird Group 1970-4; Kt Jan. 1971; m. 29 Apr. 1933 Ruth Marie, d. of Percy E. Hall, co. director, of Springfield, NJ, USA; d. 11 Aug. 1991.
BANKS, SAVAGE; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1744/5 (Ludford's); in school list 1752. [Doubtless brother of, or close kin to, Collingwood Banks, adm. same month]
BANKS, WILLIAM, second son of Joseph Banks MP, Revesby Abbey, Lincs., and his first wife Anne, dau. of William Hodgkinson, Overton, Derbs., merchant; b. 19 Apr 1719; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1730; in school list 1736; assumed surname of Hodgkinson while still at school, on inheriting in 1733 his maternal grandfather’s estate; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Apr 1736; adm. Middle Temple 14 May 1736; discarded surname of Hodgkinson in 1740 on becoming heir to father’s estate, following the death of his elder brother; succeeded to Revesby Abbey estate 1741; MP Grampound 1741-7; an invalid after 1745; m. 26 Sep 1741 (IGI) Sarah, dau. of William Bate, Fausson [check], Derbs.; buried 1 Oct 1761.