BANISTER, JOHN, a physician and surgeon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Oxford. In 1573 he took the degree of bachelor of physic; and, obtaining a licence from the university to practise, settled at
Nottingham, where he lived many years in great repute, and wrote several medical and surgical treatises. The time of his death is not known. His works were collected and published in a 4to volume in 1633.