Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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. BANNATYNE, REV. ARCHIBALD. _b._ Rothesay; licensed by presbytery of Ayr 1835; minister at Oban 1842–53 and at John Knox’s Free church Glasgow 1853 to death. _d._ 18 May 1863. _Truth in love, a few memorials of the Rev. Archibald Bannatyne_ 1864. BANNER, REV. BENJAMIN HOLFORD. _b._ 26 Nov. 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; precentor of Cashel 26 Aug. 1826 to death; chancellor of Emly, Tipperary 2 April 1835 to death. _d._ 1874. BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER (_son of Thomas Bannerman of Aberdeen, wine merchant who d. Jany. 1820 aged 77_). _b._ Aberdeen 7 Oct. 1788, shipowner, merchant and banker there; M.P. for Aberdeen 1832–47; dean of faculty in Marischal college Aberdeen 1837; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 1841; governor of Prince Edward island 3 Feb. 1851, of the Bahamas 8 May 1854 and of Newfoundland 9 Feb. 1857 to 1863; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._ Louth cottage, Chorley 30 Dec. 1864. _I.L.N. xix_, 236 (1851), _portrait_. BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. _b._ Aberdeen 6 April 1823; succeeded 18 June 1851. _d._ 46 Grosvenor place, London 21 April 1877. BANNERMAN, SIR CHARLES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 18 Aug. 1782; succeeded 31 May 1840. _d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly, London 18 June 1851. BANNERMAN, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. James Patrick Bannerman, minister of Cargill, Perthshire_). _b._ manse of Cargill 9 April 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; minister of Ormiston, Midlothian 1833–43 when he left the Established for the Free church; professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in New college Edin. 1849 to death; took a leading part in Free church movement; D.D. Princeton college New Jersey 1850; author of _The prevalent forms of unbelief_ 1849; _Apologetical theology_ 1851; _Inspiration_ 1865; _The Church 2 vols._ 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1868. BANNISTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of Charles George Bannister of London, solicitor 1796–1858_). _b._ 1826; ed. at Charterhouse; captain 2 Bombay light cavalry 24 April 1854 to 10 April 1861; governor of Maidstone gaol. _d._ 20 April 1874. BANNISTER, REV. JOHN (_son of David Bannister of York 1788–1854_). _b._ York 25 Feb. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1853, LL.B. and LLD. 1866; P.C. of Bridgehill, Derbyshire 1846–57; P.C. of St. Day, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1857 to death; author of _A glossary of Cornish names, 20,000 Celtic and other names now or formerly in use in Cornwall with derivations and significations_ (1871). _d._ St. Day 30 Aug. 1873. _Bibl. Cornub. i_, 9 (1874), _iii_, 1047 (1882). BANNISTER, SAXE. _b._ Bidlington house Steyning, Sussex 27 June 1790; ed. at Lewes, Tunbridge and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; raised a company and volunteered for the army 1813; captain on h.p. 25 Dec. 1813; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1819; attorney general of New South Wales 5 April 1824 to April 1826 when removed from office; printed a statement of his ‘claims’ 1853 after presenting many petitions to the Government; gentleman bedel of Royal College of Physicians London 1849–50; author of _Records of British enterprise beyond sea vol. 1_ 1849; _William Paterson, his life and trials_ 1858; _The writings of Wm. Paterson 3 vols._ 1859; _Classical and prehistoric influences upon British history, 2 ed._ 1871. _d._ Thornton lodge, Thornton Heath 16 Sep. 1877. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. iii_, 142 (1885). BANON, AWLY PATRICK. F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, vice president June 1866 to death; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1851; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; author of _Observations on hermaphroditism illustrated by a remarkable case_