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SIR JOSEPH RANKS. 
took the name of Hodgkenson, as heir to his mother’s ancestral estate 
of Overton, in Derbyshire, but on the death of his elder brother (and 
his consequent heirship) resumed the paternal name and resigned the 
Overton estate to his next brother, who became Robert Hodgkenson, 
of Overton. 
Mr. Banks-Hodgkenson died in 1761, leaving one son, Joseph Banks. 
(Edward Edwards.) 
He received his early education under a private tutor. At the age 
of 9 he was sent to Harrow, and was thence transferred to Eton when 
he was 13. He left that school in his eighteenth year, and then entered 
as a gentleman commoner at Christ Church College, Oxford,, in Decem- 
ber, 1760. 
No. 5. Revesby Abbey. Lincolnshire, Banks’ country seat. From an old 
wood-engraving 
