Background
He was born in the parish of Street Martin, on the Channel Island of Jersey, second son of George Bandinel by his second wife, Elizabeth Lempriere.
He was born in the parish of Street Martin, on the Channel Island of Jersey, second son of George Bandinel by his second wife, Elizabeth Lempriere.
Jesus College; Winchester College.
At University level, he was Junior Proctor in 1766 under Nathaniel Haines of Pembroke College. Elected to White"s Professorship of Moral Philosophy in February 1767. And elected Oxford"s twenty-first Public Orator in May 1776, a position he held until 1784.
He was Rector of Street Bartholomew’s, Furtho, Northamptonshire, and also of Street Giles’, Wigginton, Oxfordshire, 1775-1789.
In 1789, Bandinel was presented by his kinsman, Doctor Daniel Dumaresq, to the vicarage of Netherbury in Dorset. He sold off his possessions in an auction from his home in New College Lane, Oxford, and moved with his young family to Dorset.
He is described as "a man of deep learning, sincere piety, refined manners, and great kindness of heart." Bandinel’s memory was long cherished at Netherbury, with a respect and devotion which had not died in fifty years after his death. Bandinel married in December 1775 to Margaret Dumaresq, and had five children, of whom Mary Anne, born 1784, died at the age of fourteen.
Bandinel died at Winchester and was buried in the chancel at Street Mary the Virgin’s, Netherbury.