Richard Banister ca.1570-1626

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Richard BANISTER ca.1570-1626

Biographical Note

Lincolnshire oculist.

Books

Gave books in his lifetime, and bequeathed money to buy books, to Stamford parish library. His personal library was bequeathed between his sons (medical and Latin books) and daughters (English books).

Sources

Savage-Smith, Emilie. "Banister, Richard (c. 1570–1626), oculist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. M. Perkin, A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England London, 2004, 353-4. A. Sorsby, Richard Banister and English opthalmology, in Science, medicine and history: essays in honour of Charles Singer, v.2, 1953, 17-18, 50-51.