People from Purbeck (District) - William John Bankes, Mary Bankes, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, John Trenchard, Gerald James Whitrow (Paperback)

Chapters: William John Bankes, Mary Bankes, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, John Trenchard, Gerald James Whitrow, Joseph Kellaway, George Garland, Ralph Bankes, Alfred Downing Fripp, Devina Symes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William John Bankes (11 December 1786 15 April 1855), son of Henry Bankes, the second, was a notable explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer. He was a member of the Bankes family of Dorset and he rebuilt the Kingston Lacy estate as it is today. He travelled extensively to the Orient and Egypt and collected the largest private individual collection of Egyptian artifacts in the world. His work on Egypt although not acknowledged until recently is vastly important. He was good friends with Lord Byron and Sir Charles Barry. He also served as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro in 1810, for Cambridge University from 1822-26, for Marlborough from 1829 to 1832 and finally for Dorset from 1832-35. William Bankes became interested with exploration and discovery and had an evident passion for Ancient Egypt and fine art. His massive portfolio of notes, manuscripts and drawings produced and collected during his travels along the Nile with explorations in Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East have significant historical value and is the only historical record of some inscriptions and monuments. Bankes was an educated and affluent man, though at times somewhat mischievous and boisterous. He was born in 1786 to Frances Woodward and Henry Bankes, MP of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle in Dorset. He was the second of five children and the eldest surviving son of the couple. Bankes was educated at Westminster School and continued his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge where he received his BA in 1808 and his MA in 1811. Bankes inherited Stough...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=566717