George Linnaeus Banks
George Linnaeus Banks (
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 Mercuryand the Dublin Daily Express, and published several volumes of miscellaneous prose and verse. He died in
London on the 3rd of May
1881.