Background
He was born in January 1783 in the parish of Street Peter in the East, Oxford, second son of Doctor James Bandinel by his wife Margaret, née Dumaresq.
He was born in January 1783 in the parish of Street Peter in the East, Oxford, second son of Doctor James Bandinel by his wife Margaret, née Dumaresq.
He entered the Foreign Office as a Clerk in 1799. Bandinel was a lifelong benefactor. In 1845, he provided land for the construction and endowment of a parish church at Melplash, Dorset.
lieutenant had been an unfulfilled wish of his father to see the church built, and Bandinel saw it through to completion.
The dedication ceremony was in 1846. He also donated land for a village school and schoolhouse.
Bandinel died on 29 July 1849 at his house in 19 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London. He had contracted Asian cholera while staying in Salisbury.
He was buried in the old Street George"s Hanover Square burial ground on Bayswater Road, London.