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Authorised form of nameBanks; Joseph (1695 - 1741)
Dates1695 - 1741
NationalityBritish
Date of birth21 June 1695
Date of death31 March 1741
ActivityEducation:
Middle Temple (admitted 1711)
Career:
MP for Peterborough (1728-1734); Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1735-65).
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/12/1730
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Banks of Scofton, Nottinghamshire.
Married: 1) Anne, daughter of William Hodgkinson, Merchant, of Overton, Derbyshire; 2) Catherine Collingwood, widow of Newcomen Wallis; grandfather of Sir Joseph Banks (FRS 1766)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Sedgwick; MT

Notes:
Proposed by Roger Gale; William Stukeley; Sir Hans Sloane
CodeNA5717
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MM/2/21Draft of circular letter re the Duke of Bedford's Statue Committee18 May 1802
IM/000232Banks, Sir Josephnd
IM/004974Banks, Sir Joseph and Solander, Danielnd
NLB/17/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W R Deighton, 4 and 3a Grand Hotel Buildings, Trafalgar Square, W.C. 8 November 1898
MS/391/2Bond of Joseph Banks to the Treasurer of the Royal Society25 February 1730
NLB/54/252Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to G. E. Evans Esquire15 March 1917
MS/426/537Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Edwin Canton28 April 1855
IM/004973Banks, Sir Josephnd
IM/004975Banks, Sir Josephnd
IM/004976Banks, Sir Josephnd
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