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English politician
Caleb Banks
(18 September 1659 ? 13 September 1696) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
between 1685 and 1696.
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Banks was the son of
Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet
and his wife Elizabeth Dethick, daughter of Sir John Dethick.
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He was educated at
Queens' College, Cambridge
and admitted at
Gray's Inn
in February 1675.
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He was a pupil of
John Locke
who accompanied him in France his travels in France from 1677 to 1679. Banks stood unsuccessfully for parliament at
Winchelsea
in 1679 when he was under age. He was a captain of the militia for Kent and a
Deputy Lieutenant
for the county from 1683 with a short interruption in 1688.
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Banks was elected
Member of Parliament
(MP) for
Queenborough
in 1685
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and for
Maidstone
in 1689.
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In 1689 he became a
J.P.
and a commissioner for assessment.
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In 1691 he was elected MP for
Rochester
until 1695,
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and was an assistant warden of
Rochester Bridge
from 1693. He was elected MP for Queenborough again in 1695 until his death in 1696.
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Banks suffered from ill health throughout his life
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and died aged 36 before his father. He was buried at
Aylesford
Church.
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Banks married Elizabeth Fortrey, daughter of Samuel Fortrey but there were no children, rendering his father's baronetcy extinct.
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