BANDON, JAMES BERNARD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Bernard 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork 14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835; lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ Castle Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.
BANDON, FRANCIS BERNARD, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and 1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. _d._ Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.
BANGOR, EDWARD WARD, 4 Viscount. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded 1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848; representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. _d._ Brighton 14 Sep. 1881.
BANIM, MICHAEL (_eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny, shopkeeper_). _b._ Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73; contributed _Crohoore_, _The Croppy_, _The ghost hunter_, _The mayor of Windgap_, _Father Connell_ and other tales to _The tales by the O’Hara family 24 vols._ _d._ Booterstown, co. Dublin 30 Aug. 1874. _P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim_ 1857.
BANKES, GEORGE (_3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset 1757–1834_). _b._ 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.; fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25 Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32 and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829 to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec. 1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author of _The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there_ 1853. _d._ 5 Old palace yard Westminster 6 July 1856. _Waagen’s 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 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.
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).