In a good paddock

National Portrait Gallery
Nov 6 · 10 min read
Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1788 by Benjamin West and John Raphael Smith (engraver), mezzotint. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. Purchased 2010.

Joseph Banks was 25 when he sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour. At 35 he became President of the Royal Society. He was 36 when his support for the idea of Botany Bay as a site for a new English penal settlement made that settlement eventuate

Joseph Banks was born to Lincolnshire landowners in 1743 and grew up on his father’s estate, Revesby. At Eton, he became…

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