Joseph Banks
From Graces Guide
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (13 February 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771).
The first meeting for the founding of the Royal Institution, of which there is any record, was held in 1799, at the house of Sir Joseph Banks.[1]
Some correspondence with James Watt
c.1807 Featured in the painting of 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8', reproduced as an engraving by George Zobel, and William Walker[2]
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