In a good paddock
Nov 6 · 10 min read

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…


