18 MEMOIR OF 



and a lecture room, are attached to most of our 

 provincial towns, we can scarcely appreciate the 

 merits of an individual who set the bright example 

 before us, and contributed in so great a degree to 

 produce this gratifying result. Let the present 

 generation, who reap the benefit of his exertions, 

 not ungratefully forget the memory of Sir Joseph 

 Banks. 



His father was William Banks Hodgkinson,* 

 Esq. the proprietor of Revesby Abbey, in Lin- 

 colnshire, where his only son Joseph was born, 

 February 13, 1743. He received the rudiments 

 of education at home, under a private tutor, and 

 afterwards went to Harrow, from thence to Eton, 

 and finally completed his studies at Christchurch, 

 Oxford. He had the misfortune to lose his father 

 at the early age of eighteen. It is greatly to his 

 honour, that, thus left 



Lord of himself, that heritage of wo, 



there was no alteration in his habits of study, and 

 that he resisted the allurements of youth, wealth, 

 and freedom from parental control, for the quiet 

 enjoyments of science. Natural history appears 



* He assumed the surname and arms of Hodgkinson in 

 compliment to his maternal grandfather. He married 

 Sarah, daughter of William Bete, Esq. who died August 

 27, 1804. Besides the subject of this memoir, they had 

 one daughter, who died unmarried, September 27, 1818. 



