Sir joseph banks biography of albert

It is well known that Joseph Banks became famous after accompanying Captain James Cook on the voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on board HMS Endeavour, from to His contributions in the field of botany and in establishing the collections at Kew Gardens are also well documented, as is his influence on the creation of Australia as a British colony.

However, Banks’ contribution to manufacturing and industry are overlooked, although in many ways they are as exciting as his three-year voyage in mainly uncharted waters.

Banks owned large estates in Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.

These gave him the opportunity to practice improvements in agricultural methods and animal husbandry. But he did not limit himself to farming methods to improve his land. He also spent large efforts, and considerable sums of his own money, to sponsor acts of Parliament for the building of canals in Lincolnshire and the drainage of large tracts of Lincolnshire Fen.

Banks was no simple bystander during the