Charles bankhead biography
Charles Lewis Bankhead (–) was the son of Dr. John Bankhead of Caroline County and husband to Ann Cary Randolph, Thomas Jefferson's eldest..
In the letter reproduced below, Jefferson anxiously describes a sad and ultimately insoluble family situation.
Charles Lewis Bankhead (ca.
Charles Bankhead is senior editor for oncology and also covers urology, dermatology, and ophthalmology.1790–1833) was the son of Thomas Jefferson's good friend John Bankhead and his wife, Mary Warner Lewis Bankhead. In 1808 the younger Bankhead married Jefferson's eldest grandchild, Ann Cary Randolph (b. 1791), the daughter of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph (the "mr Randolph" mentioned below).
Four of the couple's children survived infancy.
Although trained as an attorney, Charles Bankhead never practiced law, turning his attention instead to farming at an early age.
Charles Bankhead, MD, was born at Antrim, and received his early education at Londonderry.
In 1811 he purchased Carlton, an 800-acre tract next to Monticello. No better suited to agriculture than the law, Bankhead proved to be an abusive, improvident, and alcoholic husband. Deteriorating relations with his in-laws culminated in an 1819 quarrel outside the Albemarle County courthouse in which Bankhead critically wounded his wife's brother Thomas J