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GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS (1821-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 333 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:LINNAEUS See also:BANKS (1821-1881)  , See also:British See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Birmingham on the 2nd of See also:March 1821 . After a brief experience in a variety of trades, he became at the See also:age of seventeen a contributor to various See also: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 See also:succession a variety of newspapers, including the Birmingham See also:Mercury and the See also:Dublin Daily See also:Express, and published several volumes of miscellaneous See also:prose and See also:verse . He died in See also:London on the 3rd of May 1881 .

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