William Banbury was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England on 19 October 1871 and studied at Leicester School of Art, the Royal College of Art, and in Paris. He subsequently worked primarily as a sculptor in metal, wood and stone. He also designed jewellery and art metalwork.

He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1908 to 1923 and at the Royal Academy in London from 1908 to 1922. He also exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Aberdeen Artists' Society. He participated in the eighth exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1906 at which he exhibited a mirror back.

He lived for many years in Aberdeen and taught sculpture, modelling and crafts at Gray's School of Art from c,1910 and c.1930. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1923, and an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1935.

A necklace in the Arts and Crafts style designed by Banbury was offered for sale at Bonhams, London on 16 October 2012.

Banbury gave as his occupation Teacher of Sculpture (Retired) in the 1939 England Register. By then he had returned to Leicestershire and his address was given as High Anes, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire.

Banbury died, aged 94, in 1966. His death was registered in Leicester, Leicestershire.

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