He was the eldest son of Frederick Banbury and Cecilia Laura (née Cox) of Shirley House, Surrey.

But those are not the people best fitted in this practical world either to sit in this House ... or to be entrusted with the immense power which this bill gives them.

[7] In late September 1922, the GNR honoured Sir Frederick by naming its newest express passenger locomotive no.

[8] Banbury married Elizabeth Rosa, daughter of Thomas Barbot Beale, of Brettenham, Suffolk in 1873.

[1] Banbury survived her by six years and died in August 1936 at his home, Warneford Place, Sevenhampton, near Highworth in Wiltshire, aged 85.