BANKES, William John (elder brother of the preceding). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; M.P. for Truro 1810–12, for Cambridge Univ. 1821–25, for Marlborough 1829–32 and for Dorset 1833–34; a great friend of Lord Byron; travelled in the East with Giovanni Finati whose life he translated from the Italian 2 vols. 1830. d. Venice 15 April 1855. A.R. 1826 49–56.
BANKHEAD, Charles. b. Antrim; ed. at Londonderry and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1790; surgeon to the Londonderry militia; L.C.P. 25 June 1807; practised at Brighton; physician extraordinary to Prince Regent 24 Feb. 1816, removed to London; physician extraordinary to George 4th 30 March 1821; practised many years at Florence. d. Florence 26 Nov. 1859 in 92 year.
BANKHEAD, Charles. Minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 24 Nov. 1843 to 6 April 1851. d. 8 St. James’s st. London 11 March 1870.
BANKS, George Linnæus (4 son of John Banks of Birmingham, horticulturist). b. Bull Ring, Birmingham 2 March 1821; began lecturing 29 Dec. 1846; promoted Mechanics’ Institutes in Yorkshire and Durham; edited the Advertiser at Harrogate 1848, Mercury at Birmingham, Daily Express at Dublin, Chronicle at Durham, Royal Standard at Windsor, and the Sussex Mercury 1864; wrote the popular negro melody Dandy Jim of Caroline; author of Blossoms of poesy 1841; Staves for the human ladder, poems 1850; All about Shakspere 1864; The Swiss father a drama produced at T.R. Liverpool 1846 and Better late than never a comedy produced at Durham theatre 1858. d. Dalston, London 3 May 1881. Illustrated Review vi, 261–63, portrait.
BANKS, John. b. 1 Sep. 1752 at 11.30 p.m., a period marked by the change of style which conducted him 11 days onward in his journey half an hour after his birth. d. Easingwold 24 Nov. 1852.
BANKS, John Sherbrooke. b. 1811; ensign 33 Bengal N.I. 1829, major 1857 to death; succeeded Sir Henry Lawrence as chief comr. of Lucknow; shot through the head while examining an outpost at Lucknow 21 July or 1 Aug. 1857.
BANKS, Thomas Christopher (eld. child of Thomas Banks one of the gentlemen pensioners). Genealogist at 5 Lyons Inn London 1813–20, at the dormant peerage office John st. Pall Mall 1820; sent to North America by Alexander Humphrys to publish his rights as Earl of Stirling and to search for evidence 1826, returned 1828, sent to Ireland 1828–29, created baronet by Humphrys 1831 but resigned the rank about 1834; knight of holy order of St. John of Jerusalem; author of Dormant and extinct baronage of England 3 vols. 1807–1809; History of the ancient noble family of Marmyun 1817; Stemmata Anglicana 1825. d. Greenwich 30 Sep. 1854 in 90 year. T. C. Banks’s Baronia Anglica vol. i, (1844), preface; S. Warren’s Miscellanies ii, 169–291 (1855); G.M. xliii, 206–208 (1855).
BANKS, William Stott. b. Wakefield, March 1820; admitted solicitor Jany. 1851; partner with J. M. Ianson at Wakefield 1853; clerk to the borough justices March 1870 to death; author of List of provincial words in use at Wakefield 1865; Walks in Yorkshire 2 vols. 1866–72. d. Northgate, Wakefield 25 Dec. 1872. Yorkshire Archæol. and Topog. Journal ii, 459–60 (1873).
BANNAN, Joseph. A schoolmaster at Plymouth down to 1832 when his school was ruined by the cholera; edited the South Devon Monthly Museum 7 vols., Plymouth 1833–36; cashier and chief accountant of the Western Times newspaper at Exeter 1836 to death. d. Exeter 28 May 1865 aged 60.
BANNATYNE, Andrew (eld. son of Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1798; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Heidelberg; member of faculty of procurators in Glasgow; dean of the faculty; member of University court Glasgow. d. 1871.