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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.

BANNERMAN, ALEXANDER; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1717; in under school list 1719.

Bannister, Lemuel, son of Lemuel Bannister, counsellor-at-law, of Montclair, NJ, USA, and Mary Monroe, d. of Henry M. Faxon of Quincy, Mass.; b. 18 Nov. 1918; adm. from Milton Acad. Apr. 1936 (B); left July 1936; Harvard Univ, BA 1941, LLB 1948; member of Mass. and New York Bars, practising in New York City; USNR 1942-6 (Lieut.); m. 24 May 1941 Virginia Elizabeth, d. of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief Justice of New Jersey; d. 8 Nov. 1984.

Banting, Harold William Russell, son of Harold Banting, of Putney; b. Sept. 10, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (G); left Dec. 1911; 2nd Lieut. Royal Monmouths R.E. (Spec. Res.) Nov. 24, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917.