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.