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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.
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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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