[1] He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and admitted at Gray's Inn in February 1675.
Banks stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Winchelsea in 1679 when he was under age.
He was a captain of the militia for Kent and a Deputy Lieutenant for the county from 1683 with a short interruption in 1688.
[3] Banks was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Queenborough in 1685[4] and for Maidstone in 1689.
[3] Banks suffered from ill health throughout his life[3] and died aged 36 before his father.