Caleb Banks
Caleb Banks (18 September 1659 – 13 September 1696) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1696.
Biography
Banks was the son of
Deputy Lieutenant for the county from 1683 with a short interruption in 1688.[3]
Banks was elected
J.P. and a commissioner for assessment.[3] In 1691 he was elected MP for Rochester until 1695,[6] and was an assistant warden of Rochester Bridge from 1693. He was elected MP for Queenborough again in 1695 until his death in 1696.[3]
Banks suffered from ill health throughout his life[3] and died aged 36 before his father. He was buried at Aylesford Church.[1]
Banks married Elizabeth Fortrey, daughter of Samuel Fortrey but there were no children, rendering his father's baronetcy extinct.[3]
References
- ^ a b Charles Henry Fielding. Memories of Malling and its valley (Latin inscription)
- ^ "Bankes, Caleb (BNKS675C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e Basil Duke Henning The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Q"
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part q)
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)