1786 - 1855
William John Bankes British Scientist
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| First Name |
William
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| Middle Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Bankes
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| Full Name at Birth |
William John Bankes
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| Birthday |
11th December, 1786
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| Birthplace |
England
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| Died |
15th April, 1855
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| Place of Death |
Venice, Italy
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Sexuality |
Gay
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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William John Bankes (11 December 1786 – 15 April 1855) was an English politician, explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer. The second, but first surviving, son of Henry Bankes MP, he was a member of the Bankes family of Dorset and he had Sir Charles Barry recase Kingston Lacy in stone as it is today. He travelled extensively to the Near East and Egypt and made an extensive individual collection of Egyptian artefacts. His work on Egypt although not acknowledged until recently is vastly important. He was a good friend of Lord Byron, Samuel Rogers and Sir Charles Barry. He also served as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro in 1810, for Cambridge University from 1822 to 1826, for Marlborough (the UK parliamentary constituency that his maternal grandfather, William Woodley, for whom he was named, had held from 1780 to 1784) from 1829 to 1832 and finally for Dorset from 1832 to 1835.
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