Edward (Bill) Banks (1903–1988) was a British administrator, amateur naturalist and museum curator.
[1] He was the only son of Reginald Clare Banks, a colliery proprietor, but had three older sisters and went on to study zoology at Oxford University.
[2] In 1925 Banks entered the Sarawak Service[3] and served as a District Officer during the period of the White Rajahs.
During the Japanese occupation of Sarawak in the Second World War, Banks was interned at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching.
[5] A collection of Banks' papers are in the Papers of the Brooke Family of Sarawak (1941–1981), held in the Rhodes House Library in Oxford, England.