He was educated at Rugby School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital, qualifying in medicine in 1906.
[2] He also worked with Robert Jones at the Shepherds Bush Military Orthopaedic Centre during the First World War.
He was subsequently appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and also performed many of the neurosurgical operations carried out there.
He retired in 1944, but continued working until his death on 8 April 1951, after a full day of operating at Mount Vernon Hospital.
[3] Bankart is remembered for developing a precise and fast surgical technique after studying under Arbuthnot-Lane.