Daughter of the sculptor Thomas Banks (1735-1808) and grandmother of Sir Edward John Poynter. After rejecting a proposal from her life-long friend Samuel Rogers she married Edward Forster in 1799.

REFERENCES TO Lavinia Forster [née Banks]:

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 October 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)