Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase
Early days 1849 2 ed. 1859; Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols.; Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort 1850, in this volume he professes to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; Life of Amos Ogden of Middleton 1853. d. Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series 1877, pp. 462–91; Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1881) 220–25.
BAMFORD, William. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. d. Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.
BAMPTON, Augustus Hamilton. b. London 13 March 1823; civil engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation 1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of The drainage of towns 1849. d. North hill Devon 4 March 1857. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii, 92–94 (1858).
BANCALARI, Peter. b. 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many years. d. Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.
BANDINEL, Rev. Bulkeley (eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92). b. Oxford 21 Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823; chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox. 1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of the printed books 4 vols. 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R. of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of Catalogue of books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough 1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in 8, and 1846, folio, 8 vols; edited Clarendon’s History of the rebellion 1826. d. Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.
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