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Bankes, William John, 1786-1855
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1786-1855
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.