At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

In 2002 Banks published his autobiography, Banksy: My Autobiography ( Michael Joseph Ltd ).

That same year, Davis met Varina Banks Howell, then 17 years old, whom his brother Joseph had invited for the Christmas season at Hurricane plantation.

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

The proposal written by James Matra under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks for establishing a settlement in New South Wales, stated that Botany Bay was: “ no further than a fortnight from New Zealand, which is covered with timber even to the water ’ s edge.

It was independently described as Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by Johann Blumenbach in 1800 ( from a specimen given to him by Sir Joseph Banks ) and following the rules of priority of nomenclature it was later officially recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

* Banks, Jonathan C .; Mitchell, Anthony D .; Waas, Joseph R. & Paterson, Adrian M. ( 2002 ): An unexpected pattern of molecular divergence within the blue penguin ( Eudyptula minor ) complex.

* Joseph Banks Rhine

George III enriched the gardens, aided by William Aiton and Sir Joseph Banks.

The first written reference to the word, " tattoo " ( or Samoan " Tatau ") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: " I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition ".

In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

* Joseph Banks, English botanist

* February 13 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist ( d. 1820 )

* September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist ( d. 1980 )

Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30, 000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1, 600 of them unknown to European science, Cook calls the place Botany Bay.

* June 19 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist ( b. 1743 )

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS ( 19 June 1820 ) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.

Sir Joseph Banks ( center ), together with Omai ( left ) and Daniel Solander, as painted by William Parry, ca.

1967 Australian paper note obverse featuring Joseph Banks

In Lincoln The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory can be found at The Lawn, Lincoln adjacent to Lincoln Castle.

In Horncastle, Lincolnshire the Sir Joseph Banks center can be found.

* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).

( Life and teachings of Elder Ephraim ( 1912 – 1998 ) of Katounakia, Mt Athos, a disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast.

( Life and teachings of Elder Charalambos ( 1910 – 2001 ), sometime Abbot of the Monastery of Dionysiou, Mt Athos, and a disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast.

Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Palgrave Macmillan ; biography based partly on his diary from 1923 to 1945 released in recent years from former Soviet archives.

In 1892 the first significant collection of Severn's papers was published by William Sharp in The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn.

* William Sharp, The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn ( London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1892 )

* Sheila Birkenhead, Against Oblivion: The Life of Joseph Severn ( London: Cassell, 1943 )

* Sue Brown, Joseph Severn, A Life: The Rewards of Friendship ( London: Oxford UP, 2009 )

Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum.

* Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets ( 1889 ) by Joseph Fraser.

Joseph Conrad in Notes on Life and Letters.

* O ' Brian, Patrick 1993 Joseph Banks: A Life.

* 1821-A. Duncan A Short Account of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks ( University of Edinburgh, UK )

Following his exile to Mexico in the late 1930s, Spanish Civil War activist and montage artist Joseph Renau compiled his acclaimed Fata Morgana USA: the American Way of Life, a book of photomontaged images highly critical of Americana and North American " consumer culture ".

The first literary connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain had to wait for the ninth-century Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus ( AD 766 – 856 ), Archbishop of Mainz ; however, the earliest authentic copy of the Maurus text is one housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

* Joseph von Fraunhofer – His Life, His Legacy.

* Word of Life Church, megachurch in St. Joseph, Missouri

Whistler was the subject of a contemporaneous biography by his friend, the printmaker Joseph Pennell, who collaborated with his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell to write The Life of James McNeill Whistler, published in 1908.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Radical Joe: Life of Joseph Chamberlain, H Hamilton, 1977

* Kate Colquhoun-A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton ( Fourth Estate, 2003 ) ISBN 0-00-714353-2

Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI.