Edward (Bill) Banks (1903–1988) was a British administrator, amateur naturalist and museum curator.

Life

Banks was born in Newport, Wales. 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. In 1925 Banks entered the Sarawak Service and served as a District Officer during the period of the White Rajahs. He was also Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching from 1925 to 1945. During the Japanese occupation of Sarawak in the Second World War, Banks was interned at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching. Banks retired in 1950. 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.

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