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Definition: BANKS, JOSEPH (1743–1820) from A Dictionary of Entomology

English aristocrat, natural historian, traveller and collector. JB educated at Eton and Oxford. He travelled with James Cook (1768–1771) as principal naturalist on first trip around world. JB active in founding of Kew Gardens; President of Royal Gardens; President of Royal Society (1778–1820). He collected many insect Species described by Fabricius; specimens collected by Banks deposited in British Museum. (Carter 1974, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (hist. ser.) 4: 4.)


Banks, Joseph (1743-1820)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, biology English naturalist who, although making relatively few direct contributions to scientific knowledge himself, did much to promote science, both in the UK and internationally. Banks was born on 13 February 1743 in London, the son of William Banks of Revesby Abbey in Lincolnshire. Born into a wealthy family, Banks was educated at Harrow and Eton public schools and then at Oxford University. At that time the university curriculum was biased towards the classics, but Banks was more interested in botany so he employed Israel Lyons (1739-1775), a botanist from Cambridge University, as a personal tutor in the subject. After graduating in 1763, Banks moved to London in order to meet other scientists. Meanwhile his father had died in 1761, leaving Banks a large fortune, which he inherited when he came of age in 1764. In 1776 he made his first voyage, to Labrador and Newfoundland, as naturalist on a fishery-protection ship. He collected…
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Full text Article Banks, Joseph (1743-1820)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, biology English naturalist who, although making relatively few direct contributions to scientific knowledge himself, did much to promote science, both in the UK and internationally. Banks was born on 13 February 1743 in London, the son of William…
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From Historical Dictionary of Australia
Banks was England's leading naturalist in the late 18th century and an important figure in the British colonization of eastern Australia. He accompanied James Cook on his journey around the world between 1768 and 1771. He was greatly impressed by the number of new plant and animal species he found…
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From The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
British landowner, botanist, explorer, and scientific leader. Banks inherited a landed fortune from his father, and devoted himself to the infant science of botany, using his wealth to fund a passage on Captain James Cook 's first Pacific voyage, on HMS Endeavour . Accompanied by a botanist, two…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
Explorer, and for over forty years president of the *Royal Society . Educated at Harrow, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford, Banks developed an extra-curricular interest in botany. Graduating in 1763, instead of going on a grand tour, he sailed to Newfoundland and Labrador on HMS Niger . Inheriting…
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Signature of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Baronet of Banks (litho)
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Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks,(1743-1820) 1810 (oil on canvas)
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