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Galleries of art_ (1857) 374–83; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 97 (1854). 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