Background
Banks was born in Newport, Wales.
administrator curator naturalist
Banks was born in Newport, Wales.
He studied at Oxford University.
In 1925 Banks entered the Sarawak Service and served as a District Officer during the period of the White Rajahs. He was also Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching from 1925 to 1945. During the Japanese occupation of Sarawak in the Second World War, Banks was interned at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching.
Banks retired in 1950 A collection of Banks" papers are in the Papers of the Brooke Family of Sarawak (1941–1981), held in the Rhodes House Library in Oxford, England.