Thomas Bannister was born about 1793 in England.

Thomas Bannister (or Banister) was admitted to the Inner Temple on February 6, 1822, at the age of 29. He was the third son of John Bannister, late of Steyning, Sussex, and an Esquire. After a brief stint in the British Army, he fought in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832) and received decorations for his service. He was officially called to the Bar in 1842, by which time he had dropped one of the 'n's in his last name. His legal career likely ended when he left 4 Middle Temple Lane by 1848 or certainly by 1856. In the 1850s, he embarked on an extended tour of Australia and co-authored "Australia Visited and Revisited" with S. Mossman. Additionally, he authored pamphlets advocating for reforms in the Army, trade with the colonies, and suffrage. He disappeared from 5 Childs Place in 1874-75, presumably indicating his passing. Annotated copies of some of his pamphlets can be found in the Goldsmiths Library of the University of London.

He died about 1875 in London, England.

In 1889, E. G. Banks worked as a metallurgist for the Waihi Gold Mining Company in New Zealand. He contributed reports to the Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. From 1913 to 1927, he served as the company's superintendent. Afterward, he relocated to Siam (Thailand) and took on the role of a consulting mining engineer in Melbourne, Australia.

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, was born on February 24, 1743, in London, England.

He was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. As a boy, Banks enjoyed exploring the Lincolnshire countryside and developed a keen interest in nature, history, and botany. He was educated at Harrow School, Eton College, and Oxford University. In 1766, he was elected to the Royal Society and went with Phipps aboard the frigate HMS Niger to Newfoundland and Labrador intending to study their natural history. He made his name by publishing the first Linnean descriptions of the plants and animals of Newfoundland and Labrador. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771) on HMS Endeavour, visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after six months in New Zealand and Australia, returning home to immediate fame. In 1781, he was made a baronet. Banks held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists all over the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world's leading botanical garden. He is credited for bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him; becoming the first European to document 1,400. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1787 and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788. Among other activities, Banks found time to serve as a trustee of the British Museum for 42 years. He was the high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1794. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Bath (KB) in 1795, which became Knight Grand Cross (GCB) when the order was restructured in 1815.

In 1779, he Lady Dorothea Hugessen (1758-1828). He died on June 19, 1820, in London, England.

David Armitage Bannerman was born on November 27, 1886, in Chichester, Sussex, England.

He was a British ornithologist and author. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands. Despite being rejected by the military on health grounds, he served as a stretcher-bearer with the Red Cross for four years in France during World War I and earned the Mons Star. Following the war, he worked part-time at the Natural History Museum until his retirement in 1951, having twice declined the directorship of the British Museum. He was also the chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1932 to 1935, having previously edited their Bulletin from 1914 to 1915. He also held positions as Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. From 1952 to 1979, he farmed in Dumfriesshire. He was the author of "The Birds of the British Isles" (in 12 volumes, illustrated by George E. Lodge, 1953-1963).

In 1911, he married Muriel Gertrude Morgan (1884–1945), and, in 1952, he remarried Winifred Mary Jane Holland. He died on April 6, 1979, in Pendleton, Lancashire, England.

Albert Walton Bannister was born in September 1851 in Oakland, Ontario.

He was an educator. He graduated from Victoria University, Ontario (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1886). He served as Principal of St. Francis College in Richmond, Quebec. In 1892, he moved to California, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

In 1880, he married Jessie Victoria Young (1858–1936). He died on April 30, 1918, in La Verne, Los Angeles County, California.

Henry Marriott Bannister was born on March 18, 1854, in London, England.

He was an English music editor and bibliographer who studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1878. He published valuable editions of "Monumenti Vaticani di Paleografia Musicale Latina" (Leipzig, 1913), a catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which included 141 plates. He co-edited volumes 47, 49, 53, and 54 of "Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi" (1886–1922) and published some manuscripts of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus in Scotland, along with a brief description (Rome, 1910). For many years, he served as the librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

He died on February 16, 1919, in Oxford, England.