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Venn: Adm. pens. at CLARE, Mar. 26, 1783. B. at Leeds. [2nd s. of Edward, banker, of Leeds, and Anne, dau. and co-heiress of William Banks, of Leeds.] School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1783; LL.B. 1789, as Banks, John. Ord. deacon (London) Apr. 17, 1791, as John Banks; priest (York) July 14, 1805, as J. Banks Cleaver; C. of East Retford, Notts., 1805. Assumed the surname of Banks only by Royal Licence, Mar. 6, 1788. Afterwards of Coldred, Kent. Married Elizabeth, dau. of Casten Rohde, of the City of London. Died May 2, 1845, aged 79, at Dover; the Rev. John Cleaver Banks. Brother of the next. (Misc. Gen. et Her., O.S., II. 307; Harrow Sch. Reg.; G. Mag., 1845, II. 91.)