Born 30 May 1871, the seventh child and fifth son of William Banting, art dealer, of 27 St. James's Street, London, SW and Mary Pugh, his wife. He was educated at the University of London and took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital. He served as house physician and assistant in the nose, throat and ear department at University College Hospital and was house surgeon and medical and surgical registrar at the West London Hospital. After serving as temporary assistant surgeon at St Peters' Hospital for stone and at St Mark's Hospital for rectal diseases, he was appointed assistant surgeon at All Saint's Hospital for genito-urinary diseases. During the war of 1914-18 Banting served, with the rank of captain, RAMC, as operating specialist and senior surgeon at the military hospitals at Frensham Hill and at Fort Pitt. He was a member of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society. Banting married in 1902 Ellinor Florence Villiers Suthill, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He died on 8 April 1947, aged 75, at Thaneholme, Warre Avenue, St Lawrence Cliffs, Ramsgate, where he had lived for many years since his retirement. He was an underwriting member of Lloyd's.