Thomas Arthur Ban was born on November 16, 1929, in Budapest, Hungary.

He was a Hungarian-born Canadian psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, academic, researcher, and theorist. In 1954, he graduated from the Medical School of the Semmelweis University in Budapest and became a Resident Psychiatrist at the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology from 1954 to 1956. After the Hungarian Uprising in 1957/58, he emigrated to Canada and served as a rotating intern at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax from 1957 to 1958, and as a resident psychiatrist in Montreal at the Verdun Protestant Hospital (VPH) from 1958 to 1959, and at the Allan Memorial Institute from 1959 to 1960. In 1960, Ban joined the staff at VPH as Senior Psychiatrist and Chief of the Clinical Research Service. He received his Diploma in Psychiatry from McGill University in 1960, with a thesis on “Conditioning and Psychiatry,” published in 1964. In 1969, he published the first textbook in the emerging field, "Psychopharmacology." In 1970, Ban was awarded the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Annual Research Fund Award. In 1971, he became the founding director of the first Division of Psychopharmacology in the world at the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. He was a critic of psychiatric practice, accusing the discipline of lacking a coordinated body of knowledge. Beginning in the 1960s, he was at the vanguard for a biologically based psychiatry at odds with the then-dominant Freudian psychoanalytic approach to treatment. He received the first annual Canadian Psychiatric Association’s McNeil Award in 1969. He won the award again in 1970 and 1973. Additionally, he was on the boards of two Hungarian neuropsychiatric journals, in addition to journals in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, and the United States. In 1976, he became a full professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and the director of the clinical research division of the Tennessee Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1995, Vanderbilt University appointed him professor of psychiatry, emeritus. In his remaining years, he passionately devoted himself to the history of neuropsychopharmacology, including co-editing with Edward Shorter and David Healy a four-volume autobiographical account series for the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP), and as editor-in-chief of a ten-volume oral history psychopharmacology series for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was a founder and the first executive editor of The International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology (INHN) website from its inception in 2013 until his death. In 2003, he was bestowed with the Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

He died on February 4, 2022.

The Bancroft Library in the center of the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. The collection at that time consisted of 50,000 volumes of materials on the history of California and the North American West. It is the largest such collection in the world. The building the library is located in, the Doe Annex, was completed in 1950.

Rev. Charles Bancroft, M.A., was born on September 13, 1845, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Rev. Canon Charles Bancroft (1819-1877).

He was an Anglican clergyman who received his education at Montreal High School, McGill University, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.D.). In 1865, he started his service as a deacon and curate at the Holy Trinity Church in Montreal, where his father was the rector. He was ordained a priest in 1869 and served as the rector of Knowlton, Quebec, from 1876 to 1888. Following this, he served as the rector at the Anglican Grace Church in Sutton, Québec, from 1888 to 1893, and at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, New Hampshire, from 1893 to 1905. In 1906, he retired to Knowlton, Quebec.

In 1869, he married Eunice Foster (1845-1912). He died on December 1, 1906, in Knowlton, Brome, Quebec.

Outram Bangs was born on January 12, 1863, in Watertown, Massachusetts.

He was an American naturalist and ornithologist. In 1884, he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. Harvard awarded him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1918. In 1900, Bangs became curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and, in 1924, curator of birds. He visited Jamaica in 1906 and collected over 100 birds there, but his trip was cut short by dengue fever. His collection of over 10,000 mammalian skins and skulls, including over 100 type specimens, was presented to Harvard College in 1899. In 1908, he presented his collection of over 24,000 bird skins to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1925, he travelled to Europe, visiting museums and ornithologists and arranging scientific exchanges. He wrote over 70 books and articles. He was a Fellow of the American Ornithologist Union, a foreign member of the British Ornithologist Union, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Washington Academy of Sciences.

In 1892, he married Elizabeth A. Bangs (1868–1907) and, in 1909, he remarried Annie Freeby. He died on September 22, 1932, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Thomas Bannister was born about 1793 in England.

Thomas Bannister (or Banister) was admitted to the Inner Temple on February 6, 1822, at the age of 29. He was the third son of John Bannister, late of Steyning, Sussex, and an Esquire. After a brief stint in the British Army, he fought in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832) and received decorations for his service. He was officially called to the Bar in 1842, by which time he had dropped one of the 'n's in his last name. His legal career likely ended when he left 4 Middle Temple Lane by 1848 or certainly by 1856. In the 1850s, he embarked on an extended tour of Australia and co-authored "Australia Visited and Revisited" with S. Mossman. Additionally, he authored pamphlets advocating for reforms in the Army, trade with the colonies, and suffrage. He disappeared from 5 Childs Place in 1874-75, presumably indicating his passing. Annotated copies of some of his pamphlets can be found in the Goldsmiths Library of the University of London.

He died about 1875 in London, England.

In 1889, E. G. Banks worked as a metallurgist for the Waihi Gold Mining Company in New Zealand. He contributed reports to the Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. From 1913 to 1927, he served as the company's superintendent. Afterward, he relocated to Siam (Thailand) and took on the role of a consulting mining engineer in Melbourne, Australia.

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, was born on February 24, 1743, in London, England.

He was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. As a boy, Banks enjoyed exploring the Lincolnshire countryside and developed a keen interest in nature, history, and botany. He was educated at Harrow School, Eton College, and Oxford University. In 1766, he was elected to the Royal Society and went with Phipps aboard the frigate HMS Niger to Newfoundland and Labrador intending to study their natural history. He made his name by publishing the first Linnean descriptions of the plants and animals of Newfoundland and Labrador. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771) on HMS Endeavour, visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after six months in New Zealand and Australia, returning home to immediate fame. In 1781, he was made a baronet. Banks held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists all over the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world's leading botanical garden. He is credited for bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him; becoming the first European to document 1,400. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1787 and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788. Among other activities, Banks found time to serve as a trustee of the British Museum for 42 years. He was the high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1794. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Bath (KB) in 1795, which became Knight Grand Cross (GCB) when the order was restructured in 1815.

In 1779, he Lady Dorothea Hugessen (1758-1828). He died on June 19, 1820, in London, England.