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Clarke Abel (1780–1826). Surgeon to the Amherst embassy to China 1816–17

Adam Afzelius (1750–1837). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, Swedenborgian, hired by Sierra Leone Company and Banks’s plant collector in Sierra Leone 1792–6

William Aiton (1731–93). Head Gardener Kew 1759–93, Banks’s main contact at the royal garden

William Townsend Aiton (1766–1849). Son of the above and Head Gardener Kew 1793–1841, taking over his father’s duties and contact with Banks

William Alexander (1767–1816). Artist to the Macartney embassy to China 1792–4

John Allen (1773–1806). Lead miner, Banks’s appointed mineralogist on HMS Investigator 1801–3

William Amherst (1773–1857) 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan. Leader of the third British embassy to China (Amherst embassy) 1816–17, Governor-General of India 1823–8

James Anderson (1738–1809). Physician General East India Company Madras, naturalist, first person to bring cochineal to Banks’s attention in 1786

George Austin (?–1790). Banks’s appointed gardener on HMS Guardian 1789

Joseph Banks (1743–1820). Botanist, President of the Royal Society

Sarah Sophia Banks (1744–1818). Sister of Joseph Banks

(Lady) Dorothea Banks (1758–1828). Wife of Joseph Banks

Francis Baring (1740–1810). Banker, head of Baring and Co. London’s chief merchant bank, Director 1779–1810 and Chairman East India Company 1792–3, responsible for the Company’s role in the Macartney embassy to China 1792–4

Francis Louis Barrillier (1773–1853). Army officer, surveyor in New South Wales 1800–3

John Barrow (1764–1848). Comptroller on Macartney embassy to China 1792–4, Secretary to George Macartney Cape Colony 1797–1804, Second Secretary to the Admiralty 1804–45

Henry Bathurst (1762–1834) 3rd Earl Bathurst. Politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812–27

Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803). Naval officer, commander French exploration vessel Le Géographe on its intended circumnavigation of Australia 1800–3, met Matthew Flinders in present-day South Australia in April 1802

Franz Bauer (1758–1840). Botanical artist active at Kew

Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826). Botanical artist, brother of the above, Banks’s appointed artist on HMS Investigator 1801–3

Lord Beauchamp. See Francis Seymour Conway

Andreas Berlin (1746–73). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, plant collector in Sierra Leone alongside Henry Smeathman 1773

Charles Blagden (1748–1820). Physician, Secretary to the Royal Society 1784–97, Banks’s confidant

John Bradby Blake (1745–73). Supercargo East India Company Canton 1770–3, co-producer of hybrid Chinese-British botanical drawings

William Bligh (1754–1817). Naval officer, commander HMS Bounty and HMS Providence 1787–9 and 1791–3 respectively, Fourth Governor of New South Wales 1806–8

Essex Henry Bond (1762–1819). Naval officer, commander East India Company ship Royal Admiral

Jacob Bosanquet (1755–1828). Director from 1782, Deputy-Chairman Court of Directors 1797, 1802, 1810, Chairman Court of Directors 1798, 1803, 1811 East India Company

James Bowie (c.1789–1869). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in Brazil 1814–16 and at the Cape 1816–23

William Broughton (1762–1821). Naval officer, commander HMS Chatham 1791–3

Robert Brown (1773–1858). Botanist, Banks’s plant collector in Australia on HMS Investigator 1801–3, Banks’s librarian 1810–20

Earl of Buckinghamshire. See Robert Hobart

Charles Bunbury (1740–1821). Politician, Chairman Bunbury Committee on crime and punishment 1778–9

David Burton (?–1792). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in Australia

George Caley (1770–1829). Gardener, botanist, Banks’s plant collector in Australia 1800–10, Superintendent St Vincent Botanic Garden 1816–22

John Call (1731–1801). Engineer, politician, promoted transportation and the establishment of penal colonies

Duncan Campbell (1726–1803). Merchant, shipowner, contractor for transportation and for the provision of convict hulks

Lord Castlereagh (1769–1822). Politician, President of the Board of Control 1802–6

Charles Cathcart (1759–88). Military officer, politician, leader of the first British embassy to China (Cathcart embassy) 1787–8

Henry Chamberlain (1773–1829). Diplomat, British consul-general in Brazil, an important contact for James Bowie and Allan Cunningham while plant collecting in Brazil

John Clarkson (1764–1828). Naval officer, abolitionist, Governor of Sierra Leone 1792, responsible for bringing the first settlers from Nova Scotia

David Collins (1756–1810). Military officer, judge advocate of New South Wales 1788–96

James Colnett (1753–1806). Naval officer, fur trader, commander merchant vessel Prince of Wales 1786–8

Francis Seymour Conway (1743–1822) Lord Beauchamp. Politician, headed the Beauchamp Committee hearings into transportation 1785

James Cook (1728–79). Naval officer, explorer, commander HMS Endeavour 1768–71, HMS Resolution 1772–5, 1776–9

John Cranch (1758–1816). Naturalist on HMS Congo 1816

John Crosley (1762–1817). Astronomer on HMS Investigator 1801–3

Allan Cunningham (1791–1839). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in Brazil 1814–16 and Australia 1816–31

Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808). Cartographer, First Hydrographer of the British Admiralty 1795–1808

Nathaniel Dance (1748–1827). Naval officer, commander East India Company ship Earl Camden 1802–4 engaging French fleet in the Battle of Pulo Aura 1804

William Devaynes (1730–1809). Politician, merchant, banker, Chairman East India Company 1770–1807 passim

James Dickson (c.1738–1822). Botanist, nurseryman in Covent Garden

George Dixon (1748–95). Naval officer, fur trader, commander merchant vessel Queen Charlotte 1785–8

Jonas Dryander (1748–1810). Botanist, Banks’s librarian 1782–1810

Alexander Duncan (1758–1832). Surgeon to the East India Company Canton 1788–97, Banks’s plant collector in Canton during this period

John Duncan (1751–1831). Brother of the above, Surgeon to the East India Company Canton 1783–8, Banks’s plant collector in Canton during this period

Henry Dundas (1742–1811) 1st Viscount Melville. Politician, Treasurer of the Navy 1782–1800, Home Secretary 1791–4, President Board of Control 1793–1801, Secretary of State for War 1794–1801, First Lord of the Admiralty 1804–5

Hinton East (?–1792). Planter, botanist, Receiver-General of Jamaica 1779, Banks’s important contact in Jamaica

John Ellis (c.1710–76). Naturalist, early proponent and supporter of the Linnaean classificatory system

Richard Cadman Etches (1744–1817). Merchant, entrepreneur, formed the King George’s Sound Company the first British company to trade for furs in the Pacific Northwest 1785

Matthew Flinders (1774–1814). Naval officer, commander HMS Investigator 1801–3

George III (1738–1820). King of the United Kingdom 1760–1820

Hugh Gillan (?1745–98). Physician to the Macartney embassy to China 1792–4, plant collector in Brazil and China on this mission

Peter Good (?–1803). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in Calcutta 1794, Banks’s appointed gardener and plant collector on HMS Investigator

William Goulburn (1784–1826). Politician, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812–21

Erasmus Gower (1742–1814). Naval officer, commander HMS Lion conveying members of the Macartney embassy to and from China 1792–4

Charles Green (1734–71). Astronomer on HMS Endeavour 1768–71

William Grenville (1759–1834) 1st Baron Grenville. Politician, Home Secretary 1789–91

Charles Francis Greville (1749–1809). Politician, antiquarian, collector

William Hamilton (1730–1803). Antiquarian, collector, British Ambassador to Naples 1764–1800

George Harrison (1767–1841). Civil servant, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1805–26

Lord Hawkesbury. See Charles Jenkinson

Robert Hobart (1760–1816) 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. Politician, President of the Board of Control 1812–16

James Hooper (?–1830/1). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in China on the Amherst embassy 1816–17, head gardener Buitenzorg (now Bogor) Botanic Gardens 1817–30

John Hope (1725–86). Physician, Professor of Botany and King’s Botanist University of Edinburgh 1761–86

Anthony Pantaleon Hove (?–1830). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in southwest Africa 1786, Gujarat 1787–8

John Hunter (1737–1821). Naval officer, Second Governor of New South Wales 1795–1800

Charles Jenkinson (1729–1808) Lord Hawkesbury. Politician, President of the Board of Trade 1786–1804

Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770–1828) 2nd Earl of Liverpool. Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1812–28

William Jones (1746–94). Jurist, philologist, orientalist, judge Supreme Court Calcutta 1783–94

Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716). Naturalist, physician to the Dutch East India Company Nagasaki 1690–2

Paul Ke (c.1752–?). Missionary, Chinese interpreter to Macartney embassy to China 1792–4

William Kerr (1779–1814). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector in Canton 1803–10, Superintendent Ceylon Botanic Garden 1810–14

James King (1750–84). Naval officer, commander HMS Discovery on James Cook’s Third Voyage 1779–80

John King (1759–1830). Civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Department 1791–1806

Philip Gidley King (1758–1808). Naval officer, Third Governor of New South Wales 1800–6

Johan Gerhard Koenig (1728–85). Pharmacist, physician, botanist, plant collector on India’s Coromandel Coast 1768–85

Robert Kyd (1746–93). Military officer, Superintendent Calcutta Botanic Garden 1787–93

David Lance (c.1755–1820). Supercargo East India Company in Canton 1775–89 and 1803–4

Baron Georg Langsdorff (1774–1852). Physician, naturalist, diplomat in Brazil 1813–30

William Elford Leach (1791–1836). Zoologist, assistant librarian British Museum 1813–22

James Lee (1715–95). Nurseryman, joint owner Vineyard Nursery Hammersmith 1745–95

Jacob Li (c.1752–?). Missionary, Chinese interpreter to Macartney embassy to China 1792–4

James Lind (1736–1812). Astronomer, physician, accompanied Banks to Iceland 1772

Carl Linnaeus (1707–78). Botanist, physician, Professor of Medicine Uppsala University 1741–72, Rector Uppsala University 1750–71, established modern botanical nomenclature

Charles-Alexandre Linois (1761–1848). Naval officer, commander of the Marengo and the French fleet during the Battle of Pulo Aura 1804

Lord Liverpool. See Robert Banks Jenkinson

David Lockhart (1786–1845). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector on HMS Congo 1816, Superintendent Trinidad Botanic Gardens 1818–45

Israel Lyons (1739–75). Botanist, mathematician, astronomer, an early exponent of Linnaean taxonomy and nomenclature, taught (1764) and inspired Banks

George Macartney (1737–1806). Diplomat, Governor of Madras 1781–5, leader second British embassy to China (Macartney embassy) 1792–4, Governor of the Cape Colony 1796–8

James Main (c.1765–1846). Gardener, plant collector in China 1790s

William Marsden (1754–1836). Orientalist, First Secretary of the Admiralty 1804–7

Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811). Mathematician, Astronomer Royal 1765–1811

Francis Masson (1741–1805). Kew gardener, plant collector at the Cape, the Atlantic and Caribbean, the Mediterranean and North America.

James Matra (1746–1806). Sailor, diplomat, promoter of settlement in New South Wales 1783–5

Murray Maxwell (1775–1831). Naval officer, commander HMS Alceste on the Amherst embassy to China 1816–17

Archibald Menzies (1754–1842). Assistant surgeon Royal Navy, gardener, botanist, Banks’s plant collector in the Pacific on the Prince of Wales 1786–9 and on HMS Discovery 1791–4

Anne Monson (c.1727–76). Botanist and plant collector

John Montagu (1718–92) 4th Earl of Sandwich. First Lord of the Admiralty 1748–51, 1763, 1771–82

Dan Moowattin (c.1790–1816). Dharug guide with George Caley in Australia 1805–10

Thomas Morton (?–1792). Secretary to Court of Directors East India Company 1783–92

David Nelson (?–1789). Gardener, Banks’s plant collector on HMS Discovery 1776–80 and on HMS Bounty 1787

Evan Nepean (1752–1822). Administrator, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1782–94, First Secretary to the Admiralty 1795–1804

August Nordenskjöld (1754–92). Chemist, Swedenborgian, hired by Sierra Leone Company

Franz Pehr Oldenburg (1740–74). Soldier, plant collector in the Cape meeting Banks, Solander and Masson 1771–3

Mungo Park (1771–1806). Surgeon, Banks’s sponsored explorer in West Africa 1795–7

Sydney Parkinson (c.1745–71). Banks’s appointed botanical artist on HMS Endeavour 1768–71

William Paterson (1755–1810). Military officer, botanist and explorer in Australia 1791–1810, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales 1801–10

Robert Peel (1788–1850). Politician, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1810–12

James Pendergrass (1766–1851). Naval officer, commander East India Company ship Hope to and from Canton 1805–6

Arthur Phillip (1738–1814). Naval officer, commander HMS Sirius First Fleet to New South Wales 1787–8, First Governor of New South Wales 1788–90

Constantine Phipps (1744–92) 2nd Baron Mulgrave. Naval officer, explorer, Banks’s close friend for over thirty years

William Henry Pigou (fl.1775–83). Supercargo East India Company in Canton

William Pitcairn (1712–91). Physician, botanist, President Royal College of Physicians 1775–85, owner of substantial garden in Islington

William Pitt (1759–1806). Politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1783–1801, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801, 1804–6

Home Popham (1762–1820). Naval officer, Rear Admiral 1814–20, politician 1804–12 passim

Nathaniel Portlock (c.1747–1817). Naval officer, commander merchant vessel King George 1785–8, commander HMS Assistant 1791–3 to Tahiti

John Pringle (1707–82). Physician, President of the Royal Society 1772–8

Puankhequa I (1714–88). Principal Hong merchant in Canton

Puankhequa II (1755–1820). Son of the above and principal Hong merchant in Canton

Qianlong Emperor (1711–99). Sixth Emperor of the Qing dynasty China 1735–96

William Ramsay (fl.1771–1814). Secretary, Court of Directors, East India Company c.1792–1806

John Reeves (1774–1856). Assistant inspector of teas East India Company in Canton, Banks’s plant collector in Canton 1812–20

John Rennie (1761–1821). Civil engineer involved in assessing the steamboat HMS Congo 1815–16

Matthew Riches (1755–?, fl. 1791–1814). Naval officer, commander of the East India Company ship Thames to and from Canton 1806–7

Edward Riou (1762–1801). Naval officer, commander HMS Guardian 1789–90

Henry Roberts (1756–96). Naval officer, Lieutenant HMS Discovery 1776–80

William Roxburgh (1751–1815). Surgeon, botanist, Superintendent Calcutta Botanic Garden 1793–1814

Patrick Russell (1727–1805). Physician, naturalist to the East India Company in the Carnatic 1785–91

Friedrich Sello var. Sellow (1789–1831). Gardener, botanist, plant collector in Brazil 1814–31

Granville Sharp (1735–1813). Lawyer, abolitionist, proponent of the settlement of Sierra Leone 1787–9

Henry Smeathman (1742–86). Naturalist, entomologist, plant collector in Sierra Leone for a consortium including Banks 1771–5

Christen Smith (1785–1816). Banks’s botanist on HMS Congo 1816

Christopher Smith (?–1807). Banks’s appointed gardener on HMS Providence 1791–3, Banks’s appointed gardener on the Royal Admiral 1794, Superintendent Penang Botanic Garden 1805–7

James Smith (?–1789). Banks’s appointed gardener on HMS Guardian 1789

James Edward Smith (1759–1828). Botanist, President of the Linnean Society of London 1788–1828

Percy Smythe (1780–1855) 6th Viscount Strangford. Diplomat, British Envoy to Portugal (Brazil) 1806–15

Daniel Solander (1733–82). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, Keeper Natural History Department British Museum 1773–82

Anders Sparrman (1748–1820). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, naturalist on HMS Resolution 1772–5

George Spencer (1758–1834) 2nd Earl Spencer. Politician, First Lord of the Admiralty 1794–1801

George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801). Physician, diplomat, Secretary to George Macartney on the Macartney embassy to China 1792–4

George Thomas Staunton (1781–1859). Son of the above, sinologist, East India Company employee 1798–1816

Philip Stephens (1723–1809). Politician, First Secretary of the Admiralty 1763–95

John Stuart (1713–92) 3rd Earl of Bute. Politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1782–3, adviser to Augusta Dowager Princess of Wales concerning Kew 1751–72

George Suttor (1774–1858). Market gardener, plant collector in Australia 1800–20 passim

Olof Swartz (1760–1817). Botanist, student of Carl Linnaeus the younger, Banks’s close friend

Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). Mathematician, engineer, visionary

Lord Sydney. See Thomas Townshend

Edward Thompson (c.1738–86). Naval officer, commadore of the Africa Station Royal Navy 1782–6, commander HMS Grampus 1785–6

Thomas Boulden Thompson (1766–1828). Naval officer, commander HMS Nautilus 1785–6

Henry Thornton (1760–1815). Politician, banker, abolitionist, Chairman Sierra Leone Company 1791–1808

Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1826). Botanist, student of Linnaeus, surgeon to the Dutch East India Company Nagasaki 1775–6

Thomas Townshend (1733–1800) 1st Viscount (Lord) Sydney. Politician, Home Secretary 1783–9

George Tripp (1752–1830). Naval officer, commander HMS Grampus 1786, commander HMS Sphinx 1790–1

James Kingston Tuckey (1776–1816). Naval officer, commander of HMS Congo 1815–16

William Tudor (?–1816). Comparative anatomist on HMS Congo 1816

George Vancouver (1757–98). Naval officer, commander HMS Discovery 1791–5

Gerard De Visme (1726–97). Merchant based in Lisbon 1746–91

Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746–99). Industrialist, abolitionist, promoter of the colonisation of West Africa

Samuel Wallis (1728–95). Naval officer, commander HMS Dolphin 1766–8

James Watt Jr. (1769–1848). Mechanical engineer, businessman, consultant to the navy regarding the steam engine on HMS Congo

William Westall (1781–1850). Banks’s appointed landscape artist on HMS Investigator 1801–3

Whang at Tong (fl.1774–96). Linguist, scholar and businessman in Canton, visited England 1774–?81 and accompanied Banks in and around London

William Wilberforce (1759–1833). Politician, abolitionist, Director Sierra Leone Company

James Wiles (1768–1851). Banks’s appointed gardener on HMS Providence 1791–3

George Yonge (1731–1812). Politician, Secretary at War 1782–94