Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

• Main Author: Duke, Norman C.
• Other Authors: Hopley, David
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2011
• Subjects: Endeavour; Newfoundland; Southern Ocean; Iceland
• Online Access: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/48517/16/48517%20Duke%202011.pdf

[Extract] BANKS, JOSEPH (1743-1820) Banks, a founding father of natural science and Australia, was born at London, Great Britain, on 13 February 1743, the only son of a wealthy landowner. He married Dorothea Hugesson on 23 March 1779. He died in Isleworth, London, on 19 June 1820, aged 77. Banks dev...