Joseph Banks

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Patrick O’Brian. Joseph Banks

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PREFACE

Chapter 1 ORIGINS, EDUCATION, BOTANY

Chapter 2 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

Chapter 3 THE ROYAL SOCIETY: SOLANDER: THE ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE

Chapter 4 TAHITI AND THE TRANSIT OF VENUS

Chapter 5 NEW ZEALAND, BOTANY BAY AND THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

Chapter 6 HOME AGAIN: RESOLUTION: ICELAND

Chapter 7 THE GREAT FLORILEGIUM: OMAI: SOHO SQUARE

Chapter 8 PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY: MARRIAGE: THE KING AND KEW: BOTANY BAY

Chapter 9 HM’S SHEEP: PLANT COLLECTORS: BLIGH AND BOUNTY: REVOLUTION IN FRANCE

Chapter 10 WAR: NEW SOUTH WALES: THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Chapter 11 TROUBLE IN SYDNEY AND ICELAND: DECLINING HEALTH: THE END

Chapter 12 HIS WILL, AND SOME LETTERS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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Patrick O’Brian

JOSEPH BANKS

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After her husband’s death she left Revesby for the time being and moved to Chelsea, taking Turret House, an elegant Queen Anne building with an immense arcaded court in Paradise Row, just by the Physic Garden, which in those days, before the embankment, ran right down to the river – indeed, the Society of Apothecaries, to whom the garden belonged, had their bargehouse at the bottom, together with those of the Tallow-Chandlers and the Vintners, the Thames being still an important thoroughfare, crowded with boats, and reasonably full of fish.

At that time Chelsea was still green with fields; there were market gardeners and nurserymen too, and it was also quite a fashionable suburb. Lord Orford lived close to Turret House – his father, better known as Sir Robert Walpole, had built an immense greenhouse in his garden – and when Lord Sandwich, an old friend and fenland neighbour of the Bankses, returned to office in 1763, he spent much of his time in Chelsea. And apart from friends and acquaintances of this kind, Mrs Banks, who like her daughter Sophia was a deeply religious woman, had the Moravian Brethren half a mile up the river, in the splendid Lindsey House at the far end of Cheyne Walk, beyond what is now Battersea Bridge and what was then a ferry. Lindsey House had belonged to the Lincolnshire Berties, now Dukes of Ancaster, but in 1750 it was bought by Count Zinzendorf for the Moravians, a religious community originating in Bohemia and ultimately deriving from Hus that sent missionaries to the West Indies, Greenland and North America. Some of these missionaries were interested in botany, and they gave Joseph Banks specimens from Labrador that are still to be seen in his herbarium, now housed in the Natural History Museum.

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