Biographical notes.
The sewer ratebook for 1718 shows “John Bannister” in occupation of No. 32. This was probably John Bannister, the younger, “who came from an old St. Giles’s family, his father having been a musician, composer and violinist, and his grandfather one of the parish waits. He himself was in the royal band during the reigns of Charles II., James II., William and Mary, and Anne, and played first violin at Drury Lane theatre, when Italian operas were first introduced into England.”[[508]]