Career
He took part in the controversy over Robert Southey"s Book of the Church, (1824), in which Charles Butler was the Catholic protagonist. He was the son of Adam Banister of Hesketh Bank and Agnes, daughter of Richard Butler, of Mawdesley, Lancashire. In May, 1781, he became professor at Saint Omer"s College for the secular clergy.
On the English mission, he served several places in the north before his appointment in 1817 to Yealand, Lancashire, where he remained till January 1834.
The rest of his life was spent at Dodding Green.
