BANKS, John (1627-99), of Leadenhall Street, London, and Aylesford, Kent.

Family and Education

bap. 19 Aug. 1627, 1st s. of Caleb Banks and Martha, da. of Stephen Dann of Faversham, Kent.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 7. m. 28 Nov. 1654, Elizabeth (bur. 2 Nov. 1696), da. of John Dethick of London, 2s. (d.v.p.), 3da.Vis. Kent, 7; CB. suc. fa. Oct. 1669.PROB11/331/316. cr. bt. 22 Aug. 1661.CB. d. 18 Oct. 1699.CB; Aylesford par. regs.; D.C. Coleman, Sir John Banks (Oxford, 1963), 189.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Maidstone 30 July 1644;Cent. Kent Stud. Md/ACm1/3, f. 4v. Rochester 1683.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’.

Mercantile: freeman, E.I. Co. 1657 – 92; gov. 1672 – 74, 1683–4.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1671–3, 122, 224. Member, Levant Co. Aug. 1660–d.Coleman, Sir John Banks, 25. Asst. Royal Africa Co. 1672–4, 1676 – 78; sub-gov. 1674–5. Member, Royal Fishery Co. 1677.Select Charters, ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 187, 198; K.G. Davies, Royal African Company (1957), 378.

Local: commr. assessment, Kent 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.; Mdx. 1677, 1679, 1690–?d.; Westminster 1677, 1679. 2 July 1657 – Mar. 1662A. and O.; SR. J.p. Kent, July 1662 – Feb. 1688, Oct. 1688 – d.; Mdx. 1680-c.1686. Oct. 1658C231/6, p. 370; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’. Commr. sewers, Denge Marsh, Kent, 10 Oct. 1660, 22 May 1669;C181/6, p. 321; C181/7, pp. 64, 489. Mersham and Sandwich, Kent 1 July 1659, 21 Sept. 1660, 13 Nov. 1669;C181/6, p. 367; C181/7, pp. 57, 509. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 22 Nov. 1670.C181/7, p. 562. Asst. Rochester bridge 1659 – 61, 1679 – d.; warden, 1680, 1687, 1694. 26 July 1659HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’. Commr. militia, Kent, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. royal aid, 1664.Cent. Kent Stud. U234/O1, ff. 16–16v. Dep. lt. 1679 – Feb. 1688, 1689–d.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’.

Academic: FRS, 10 Dec. 1668–d.M. Hunter, Royal Society (1982), 208.

Parlimentarian

BANKS, Sir John, 1st Bt. (1627-99), of The Friars, Aylesford, Kent and Arch Row, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

: London and Kent., Aylesford.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, studio of P. Lely, c.1670-80;NT, Petworth. fun. monument, attrib. J. Nost, Aylesford church, Kent.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BANKS, John (1627-99), of Leadenhall Street, London, and Aylesford, Kent.

Will

22 Nov. 1697, pr. 11 Dec. 1699.PROB11/452/437.

Estates

house in Leadenhall Street, ‘over against East India House’, London, 1657-60;Cent. Kent Stud., U234/A1, p. 3; U234/B2, unfol. purchased ‘Fryars’ in Aylesford, Kent, for £8,412 in Nov. 1658, and further land in Marden, Isle of Thanet, Lydd, and East Peckham, for £1,939 at the same time;Cent. Kent Stud. U234/A1, p. 26. inherited property in the Isle of Sheppey and in Rushenden, Boxley, Lydd, and Maidstone.PROB11/331/316. At d. estate inc. a house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and property in the Isle of Thanet, New and Old Romney, and in Essex, Staffs. and Derbys.PROB11/452/437.

Oxford 1644

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