Sir joseph banks biography of abraham lincoln

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First Edition. Octavo. XII, 112 pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated boards with spinelabel. Signed in full by actor Henry Stephenson on the titlepage: "Henry Stephenson - 10.XII.20" / Binding slightly rubbed. Spinlelabel worn. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookseller Label from Brentano's in New York. Henry Stephenson (16 April 1871 24 April 1956) was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise gentlemen in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles were Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist (1948). Harry Stephenson Garraway was born to British parents in Grenada, British West Indies and educated in England. He started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he performed in more than 30 Broadway plays. Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elderly man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cynara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cynara, starring Ronald Colman and wi

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Lincoln Cathedral from the west, date unkown, Wenceslas Hollar (1607-1677)

John Ruskin famously said, ‘I have always held and proposed against all comers to maintain that the Cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles’ and I think that he might have been right. On a recent escape from Cambridge to the Lincoln Cathedral(visiting churches is cool, get involved) I encountered a good piece of Longitude tourism which is particularly fitting for a blog post today.  A plaque mounted on the wall as you enter Lincoln Cathedral commemorates the life of Sir Joseph Banks, born in London in the February of 1743, and died on this day, 19^thJune, in 1820.

Banks Memorial, Lincoln Cathedral

Banks was the only son of William Banks of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire and his wife Sarah, the eldest daughter of William Bate of Derbyshire. Lincoln seems very keen to prompt the Lincolnshire landowner and several other members of the Banks line, which included a Member of Parliament and a Sheriff for the county. So on a day trip to the city, after I had enjoyed a “Banks Bun” in a nearby tea shop, suspiciously similar to an iced spiced bun, I went over to the Cathedral to see the plaque my nephew had spotted.  Missing from the plaque is