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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3
"Banks" to "Bassoon"

Author: Various

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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION

ELEVENTH EDITION

VOLUME III

AUSTRIA LOWER to BISECTRIX

[E-Text Edition of Volume III - Part 1 of 2, Slice 3 of 3 - BANKS to
BASSOON]

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[v.03 p.0333] BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881), British miscellaneous
writer, was born at Birmingham on the 2nd of March 1821. After a brief
experience in a variety of trades, he became at the age of seventeen a
contributor to various newspapers, and subsequently a playwright, being the
author of two plays, a couple of burlesques and several lyrics. Between
1848 and 1864 he edited in succession a variety of newspapers, including
the _Birmingham Mercury_ and the _Dublin Daily Express_, and published
several volumes of miscellaneous prose and verse. He died in London on the
3rd of May 1881.

BANKS, SIR JOSEPH, BART. (1743-1820), English naturalist, was born in
Argyle Street, London, on the 13th of February 1743. His father, William
Banks, was the son of a successful Lincolnshire doctor, who became sheriff
of his county, and represented Peterborough in par