For other people named John Bankes, see John Bankes (disambiguation).
Sir John Bankes, portrait by Gilbert Jackson.
Sir John Bankes (1589 – 28 December 1644) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629.[1] He was Attorney General and Chief Justice to Charles I during the English Civil War.[1][2][3] Corfe Castle, his family seat was destroyed during a long siege, in which his wife Mary Hawtrey became known as Brave Dame Mary.[4]
^ abCrosthwaite, J. Fisher (1873). Life and Times of Sir John Bankes, Attorney-general and Lord Chief-justice of the Common Pleas in the Reign of King Charles I. Keswick Literary Society.
^Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Bankes, Sir John (1589–1644)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 22 Dec 2006
^Lieber, Francis (2019). To Save the Country. A Lost Treatise on Martial Law. Yale University Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0300222548.
^Mitchell, Anthony (October 2006). Kingston Lacy Guide. National Trust. ISBN 1-84359-042-5.
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