Captain Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave, was a Royal Navy officer, explorer and politician. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, seeing action in a n
1779 portrait of Phipps by Ozias Humphry
Commemorative plaque for Constantine Phipps at St Oswald's Church, Lythe, North Yorkshire. It records his date of birth as 9 May 1744, at variance with other sources.
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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
…wife, Lepel Hervey, the eldest daughter of John 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth and Mary 'Molly' Lepel. Phipps attended Eton College, where he befriended Joseph Banks, the English naturalist, botanist, and later patron of the natural sciences. In January 1759, he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his…
Portrait of Joseph Banks by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1773
A 1757 portrait of Banks with a botanical illustration, unknown artist, but attributed to Lemuel Francis Abbott or Johann Zoffany
Satire on Banks titled "The Botanic Macaroni", by Matthew Darly, 1772: A macaroni was a pejorative term used for a follower of exaggerated continental fashion in the 18th century.
Portrait of Joseph Banks by Benjamin West, 1772