John Bankes 1589-1644
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Sir John BANKES (1589-1644)
Biographical Note
Sir John, born in Keswick, Cumberland, matriculated at Queen’s, Oxford 1605 and subsequently pursued a successful legal career, being knighted 1631 and becoming Attorney General in 1634. He acquired the royal castle of Corfe, Dorset, and the adjacent Kingston Lacy estate in 1635. He was impeached and dispossessed by Parliament during the Civil War and died at Oxford in 1644. Corfe Castle was destroyed by military action in 1646 but the family property was regained by Sir John’s wife and sons, John and Ralph Bankes in 1647, by payment.