David Beardsley is a Kingston Lacy guide who will talk about the history of the Bankes family of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy. He will use a variety of materials from drawn from the internationally significant Bankes Archive now housed at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester. The history includes several colourful characters – like the Exiled Collector and one heir, a John Bankes, who became mired in controversy and who didn’t become the owner…