Bank'ura, a town, capital of a district in Bengal, on the north bank of Dhalkisor River. It is a healthy place, with a trade in rice, oil-seeds, cotton, and silk. Pop. 17,000.—The district, in Bardwan division, Bengal, has an area of 2621 of Elizabeth, the degree of banneret was allowed to die out in England; but it was revived in 1642, when Colonel John Smith, who recovered the royal standard at Edgehill, had that dignity conferred on him by Charles I. Sir John Smith was properly the last knight-banneret made in England; for, though George III. bestowed the title on Sir William Erskine in 1764, and on five naval officers in 1773, the proceeding was considered irregular, as the ceremony was performed at a review, and not in actual warfare; and the rank of the recipients of the honour was therefore not generally recognised.
As occupying a rank intermediate between barons and ordinary knights, bannerets have sometimes by an etymological misapprehension been styled 'baroneti' instead of 'bannereti.'