BANKS, William (1719-61), of Revesby Abbey, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. 19 Apr. 1719, 2nd s. of Joseph Banks II by his 1st w. educ. Westminster 1730-3; M. Temple 1736. m. c.1741, Sarah, da. of William Bate of Derbys., 1s. 1da. suc. maternal gd.-fa. and assumed name of Hodgkinson, 1733, but relinquished it on death of his e. bro. Joseph 1740; fa. 1741.

Address

Main residence: Revesby Abbey, Lincs.

biography text

Returned for Grampound on the Prince of Wales’s interest, Banks consistently voted with the Opposition. Having in 1745 contracted a fever which deprived him of the use of his lower limbs,1Letters and Pprs. Banks Fam. ed. Hill (Lincoln Rec. Soc. xlv), p. xxxi; Add. 39167, ff. 176-8. he did not stand for Parliament again. The father of Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent botanist, he died in 1761 (buried 1 Oct.).

Author

E.C.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Letters and Pprs. Banks Fam. ed. Hill (Lincoln Rec. Soc. xlv), p. xxxi; Add. 39167, ff. 176-8.