Joseph Banks (21 June 1695 – 31 March 1741), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734.
He succeeded his father in 1727, inheriting the estate of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, which provided an income of £3,000 a year.
[1] Banks was returned as Member of Parliament for Peterborough on the government interest at a by-election on 22 May 1728.
In his disappointment at not being awarded the office of custos rotulorum of the city a few months later, he went over to the Opposition and voted against the Government in every recorded division.
[1] His son William was the father of Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent botanist.