Henry Bankes

[2] On his father's death in 1776, he inherited the family estate at Kingston Lacy, including a lucrative lead mine in Cumberland.

He demolished the hamlet of Kingston which was situated adjacent to the 16th-century Keeper's Lodge, diverted the Blandford road (now the B3082) and converted former agricultural land to parkland.

The revised layout included the creation of a new entrance on the east side of the building, a new dining room and a large ballroom.

She wrote to her mother-in-law that: "I was perfectly satisfied from beginning to end, you know I am very difficult, but every Creature appeared in high good humour.

Bankes died at Tregothnan, Cornwall, home of his eldest daughter on 17 December 1834, and was buried at Wimborne Minster.

Henry Bankes by Pompeo Batoni , 1779.
Kingston Lacy House - Seat of the Bankes family
Frances Woodley (1760–1823), Mrs Henry Bankes II, by George Romney 1780-81.