Family and Education
b. 25 Nov. 1631, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir John Bankes of Keswick, Cumberland, and Mary, da. and h. of Ralph Hawtrey of Ruislip, Mdx.Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/61, ‘Liber Johannis Banckes’. m. 10 Apr. 1661, Mary, da. and h. of John Brune of Athelhampton, Dorset.Vis. Dorset 1677 (Harl. Soc. cxvii), 10; Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/61, ‘Liber Johannis Banckes’. educ. travelled abroad (Italy, France, Geneva), 1646-8; G. Inn 2 May 1656;G. Inn Admiss., 277. suc. bro. c.1656. Kntd. 27 May 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 227. d. 25 Mar. 1677.PROB11/354/126.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Dorset 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672; Carm., Westminster 1672. July 1660 – d.An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. J.p. Dorset; Mdx. Aug. 1660-Apr. 1670.C231/7, pp. 31, 365; HP Commons 1660–90. Dep. lt. Dorset 26 July 1660–72, 2 Feb. 1675–d.SP29/8, f. 67; Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/64, bundle ‘Sir Ralph Bankes’. Cdr. Brownsea Castle, Dorset 11 Aug. 1660–d.Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/64, bundle ‘Sir Ralph Bankes’. Commr. poll tax, Dorset 1660;SR. corporations, Oct. 1662;Dorset RO, DC/LR/D2/1, unfol. foreshore, 4 Dec. 1662. Lt. I. of Purbeck 4 Dec. 1662.Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/64, bundle ‘Sir Ralph Bankes’. Commr. subsidy, Dorset 1663;SR. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 23 Jan. 1665–d.;C181/7, pp. 313, 636. recusants, Dorset 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, June 1660–?d.LC3/2, unfol.

: of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, Dorset.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1655.NT, Kingston Lacy; Dorset RO, D/BKL, Box 8C/61, ‘Parliamentary History of the Bankes Family’, p. 17.

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Commons 1640-1660
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BANKES, Ralph (1631-77), of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, Dorset

Will
14 July 1675, pr. 26 May 1677.PROB11/354/126.
Estates
lordships of Purbeck (including Corfe Castle) and Corfe Mullen, Chettle and Kingston Lacy, Dorset (from 1663).SP23/152/583; Dorset Hearth Tax, 25, 36.
Oxford 1644
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