Henry Banks

In the novel Cat Among the Pigeons, Henry Banks is an wealthy industrialist and one of the original backers who helped to start Meadowbank School, and, at the time of the events in the book, he is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors. Three weeks into the new term school term, Banks and Miss Bulstrode were invited by the Duchess of Welsham to her home Welsington Abbey for the weekend. Miss Bulstrode thought welcomed the opportunity to meet Banks as this would give her a chance to put across her own account of the recent death of Grace Springer. Miss Bulstrode also thought that Banks and the duchess wanted to talk about her retirement which she had hinted at. Banks and the duchess were likely to want to persuade her to stay on and this was a good time to press the advantages of Eleanor Vansittart, her choice for successor.