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Sarah Sophia Banks
Portrait by Angelica Kauffman
Born(1744-10-28)October 28, 1744
Soho
DiedSeptember 27, 1818(1818-09-27) (aged 73)
NationalityEnglish
Known forCollections in the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum[1]
Scientific career
Fields

Sarah Sophia Banks (28 October 1744 – 27 September 1818)[2] was an English antiquarian collector and sister and collaborator of botanist Joseph Banks. She collected coins and medals and ephemera which are now historically valuable like broadsheets, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, engravings, advertisements and playbills.[3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

She was born on 28 October 1744 at 30 Argyll Street in Soho,[8] the daughter of William Banks, the MP for Grampound, and his wife Sarah.[2][9]

She "discussed questions of plant biology with her brother..." and "...influenced him greatly."[10] Many "of her ideas made their way into his writings [and she] also provided valuable support be recopying and editing the entire manuscript of Banks' Newfoundland voyage (published 1766)."[10]

Legacy

Her collections were given to the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum.[1][3][4][5][6][7] The rediscovery of her scrapbook on the London Monster, a man who attacked dozens of women 1788-1790, led directly to Jan Bondeson's book on the subject in 2000.

Ancestry

Family of Sarah Sophia Banks
Robert Banks[11]
Joseph Banks (MP died 1727)[11]
Margaret Frankland[11]
Joseph Banks (MP)
Rev. Rowland Hancock[11]
Mary Hancock[11]
William Banks (MP)
William Hodgkinson
Anne Hodgkinson
Sarah Sophia Banks
William Bate of Derbyshire
Sarah Bate

References

  1. ^ a b The Library of Sarah Sophia Banks, Royal Mint Museum
  2. ^ a b Gascoigne, John (2004), "Banks, Sarah Sophia", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1301
  3. ^ a b Pincott, Anthony (March 2004), "The Book Tickets of Sarah Sophia Banks", The Bookplate Journal, 2 (1): 3–30
  4. ^ a b Eagleton, Catherine (2014), "Collecting America: Sarah Sophia Banks and the 'Continental Dollar' of 1776", Numismatic Chronicle (174): 293–301
  5. ^ a b Eagleton, Catherine (2013), "Collecting African money in Georgian London: Sarah Sophia Banks and her collection of coins", Museum History Journal, 6 (1): 23–38
  6. ^ a b Eagleton, Catherine (2013), The collections of Sarah Sophia Banks, Horncastle: Sir Joseph Banks Society
  7. ^ a b Leis, Arlene Carol (2013), Sarah Sophia Banks: Femininity, Sociability and the Practice of Collecting in Late Georgian England, vol. Volume I, University of York {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  8. ^ Thornbury, Walter (1878). "CHAPTER XXV. SOHO SQUARE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.". Old and New London: Volume 3 (British History Online ed.). London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. pp. 184–196. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  9. ^ "BANKS, William (1719-61), of Revesby Abbey, Lincs". History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  10. ^ a b Lipscomb, Diana (1996). "Women in Systematics". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 26: 323–341. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  11. ^ a b c d e "BANKS, Joseph (1665-1727), of Revesby Abbey, Lincs". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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