Henry Banister (politician) explained

Henry Banister (c. 1538 - 1628) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and in 1625.

Banister was a goldsmith living in Clapton, Hackney. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Preston in the Addled Parliament. He was an out-burgess of Preston in 1624. In 1625 he was elected MP for Preston again.^[1]

Banister died at the age of about 90.

Banister had a son Christopher and two daughters.^[1]

His widow Anne (d. 1634) married Sir William Bulstrode in 1629, Member of Parliament for Rutland.^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494987#page/n155/mode/2up William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. (1889)
2. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/banister-henry-1538-1628 Andrew Thrush, 'BANISTER, Henry (c.1538-1628)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010