Joseph Banks, 1st baronet
1743–1820
Botanist. Travelled around the world on HMS Endeavour with Captain James Cook, 1768–71. President of the Royal Society of London, 1778–1820. Created baronet, 1781; privy councillor, 1797. FRS 1766.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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