A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Banister, Sir William
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BANISTER or BANNISTER, Sir WILLIAM.
Judge.
Admitted 18 May, 1672.
Son and heir of William Banister of Turk Dean, in the county of Gloucester. He was called to the Bar 30 May, 1679, was made a Serjeant-at-Law in 1706, and one of the Judges in South Wales, from which position he was advanced to be a Baron of the Exchequer in 1713. In the same year he was knighted. In the following year, however, he was removed from his office. The date of his death is not recorded.