A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
t the decease of hisfather in 1834, having previously inherited the latter on the demise of his great-uncle, the Right Hon. Sir William Wynne, in 1815. Mr. Bankes, as lord of Corfe Castle, is lord lieutenant and admiral of the Isle ofPurbeck, and lord of the hundred of Robarrow and Hasilor. He was… … The family of Bankes, now for more thantwo hundred years one of the most influen-tial in the county of Dorset, is deemed byFuller to have been of antiquity ;* its ele-vation is, however, to be traced to thelearned professor of the law. Sir John Bankes, lord chief justice otthe common pleas in the…
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