Robert Bankes, M.D., was born in London, and educated at Eton, whence he was elected, in 1720, to King’s college, Cambridge, of which society he was a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 1724; A.M. 1728; M.D. 1735; and the same year was appointed professor of anatomy in the university. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1736; and a Fellow 25th June, 1737; was Gulstonian lecturer in 1738; Censor in 1739; and Harveian orator in 1743. Dr. Bankes was chosen physician to Christ’s hospital in April, 1737, and died in November, 1746.

William Munk