[1] Like the ephemera collection of her sister-in-law Sarah Sophia Banks, it is informative about women collectors in the Georgian period.

In 1804 King George III and his family visited her collection, and she served him produce from the dairy on some of her china.

[6] The collection was sold at Christie’s in 1893 after the death of her great-nephew, who had inherited it, and found to contain Minton, Crown Derby, Sèvres, and Dresden ware as well as oriental pieces.

[7] Dorothea inherited the ephemera collection of her sister-in-law Sarah Sophia Banks, who lived with them, and donated it to the British Museum in her name.

[8] The Lady Banks rose, brought to Kew Gardens from China by William Kerr and cultivated by her husband, was named after her.