 They had four daughters and his wife retired in 1792 to concentrate on their family.Bannister was the best low comedian of his day.He was in the first presentation of the comic burletta "Hero and Leander" by Isaac Jackman, as Solano, opposite John Braham as Hymen, with which John Palmer's Royalty Theatre in Goodman's Fields embarked in 1787 upon comedy theatre having been prevented by statute from presenting serious drama.