BAGWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of John Bagwell MP, Marlfield, co. Tipperary, and Mary, dau. of Richard Hare, Ennismore, co. Kerry, and sister of William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel (I); b.; adm. 11 Sep 1787; in school list Dec 1788; still at school, up Clough’s, Jan 1790; of Marlfield, co. Tipperary; Lieut. -Col. Tipperary Militia 17 Nov 1794, Col. 23 Sep 1805 (still 1808); MP (I) Rathcormac 1798-1800; MP Clonmel 13 Feb 1801 - Feb 1819, Co. Tipperary 2 Mar 1819 - 1826; Joint Muster Master for Ireland from 1807; Privy Councillor (I) 1810; d. unm. 4 Nov 1826.
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, 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, 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.
BARNE, BARNE, second son of Miles Barne MP, Sotterley, Suffolk, and his second wife and cousin Mary, eldest dau. of George Thornhill, Diddington, Hunts.; b. 25 Aug 1754; adm. 12 Jan 1768; left 1771; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 May 1772, scholar 1773, matr. Mich. 1772; LLB 1780; Fellow of Trinity Hall 1 Dec 1781 - 1814; adm. Inner Temple 16 May 1770, called to bar 5 Feb 1779, tenant chambers from Feb 1779, Bencher 1811, Treasurer 28 Jan 1820-1; MP Dunwich 10 Dec 1777- Feb 1791; a Commissioner of Taxes 9 Apr 1791 –Mar 1820, superannuated; d. unm. 19 Jun 1828.
BARNE, FREDERICK, only son of Michael Barne (qv); b. 8 Nov 1801; adm. Christmas 1814; left 22 Mar 1817; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Nov 1816, matr. Mich. 1819; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 24 Jul 1823; Lieut., 12th Lancers 8 Dec 1825; Capt., 31 Dec 1829; sold out 2 Nov 1832; MP Dunwich 1830-2; of Sotterley Park, Suffolk; kept a racing stud; member Jockey Club from 1835; DL JP East Suffolk; m. 4 Feb 1834 Mary Anne Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir John Courtenay Honywood, Bart.; d. 9 Mar 1886.
BARNE, MICHAEL, brother of Barne Barne (qv); b. 3 Jun 1759; adm. 13 Jan 1772; left 1775 [sic ?]; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1774, matr. Lent 1777, scholar 1777; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 13 Jan 1778; Lieut., 5 Jan 1780; Capt. 16 Jun 1783; Maj., 1 Mar 1794; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1798; Lieut. -Col., 7th Light Dragoons 19 Jul 1799; retd. 4 Apr 1805; served under Duke of York in campaign in Netherlands 1793-4; MP Dunwich 1812-30; inherited Sotterley estate from half-brother 1825; m. 2 Oct 1798 Mary, dau. of Ayscough Boucherett MP, Willingham, Lincs.; d. 19 Jun 1837.
BARNE, SNOWDON, brother of Barne Barne (qv); b. 26 Dec 1756; adm. 19 Jan 1770; left 1773; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Dec 1773, scholar 1775, matr. Lent 1776; LLB 1781; Fellow of Trinity Hall from Sep 1786; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1775, called to bar 29 Jun 1781; migrated to Inner Temple Jun 1782, tenant chambers there 14 Jun 1782, Bencher 1816; MP Dunwich 1796-1812; Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in Court of Exchequer from 26 Nov 1805; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Dec 1809 - Oct 1812; a Commissioner of Customs 22 Oct 1812 - Sep 1823; d. unm. 3 Jul 1825.
BARNETT, JAMES, brother of Charles Barnett (qv); b.; adm. 14 Sep 1769; left 1776; a banker, partner Barnett Hoare Hill and Barnett, Lombard Street, from 1790; MP Rochester 1806-7, 27 Jun 1816- Feb 1817, Mar 1817-20; m. c. 1797 Anne ---; d. 1 Oct 1836, aged 70.