BANKS, Joseph (1695-1741), of Revesby Abbey, Lincs.

Soon after succeeding to £3,000 a year, Banks was returned on the government interest for Peterborough, with which he appears to have had no previous connexion. When a few months later the office of custos rotulorum of the city fell vacant on the death of the 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam, Banks applied to be appointed to it, in trust for the new Earl, then a minor.Letters and Pprs. Banks Fam. ed. Hill (Lincoln Rec. Soc. xlv), p. 90. Failing to obtain the post, he went over to the Opposition, voting against the Government in every recorded division. He did not stand in 1734 and died 31 Mar. 1741.