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

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