John Bancks (1709 – 19 April 1751), also known as John Banks, was an English writer.
Bancks was born in
Sonning, Berkshire, and became apprenticed to a
weaver
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in
Reading
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. He suffered an accident, and left the apprenticeship before completion, becoming a bookseller in
Spitalfields
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. He wrote poetry and biography, including works on the lives of
Jesus
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,
Oliver Cromwell
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and
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.
References
See also
*
List of 18th-century British working-class writers
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1709 births
1751 deaths
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
18th-century English poets
English booksellers
English biographers
English male poets
English male biographers
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