Dorothea Banks

Dorothea, Lady Banks (née Hugessen, 1758 – 1828) was an English collector of ceramics.

She was born Dorothea Hugessen on 8 November 1758, one of two daughters of William Western Hugessen of Proveden, Kent, and his wife Thomazine, née Honywood. She was a 'well-acred heiress' at the time of her marriage to scientist Sir Joseph Banks on 23 March 1779, and she was described by Banks' colleague Daniel Solander as 'rather handsome, very agreable, chatty & laughs a good deal.'

Her collection of ceramics, which she displayed in the dairy of her home at Spring Grove, is recorded in her Dairy Book. Like the ephemera collection of her sister-in-law Sarah Sophia Banks, it is informative about women collectors in the Georgian period.