Frances Harriet Hooker

Frances Harriet Hooker (30 April 1825 – 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.

Frances Harriet Hooker
Born
Frances Harriet Henslow

(1825-04-30)30 April 1825
Cambridge, England
Died13 November 1874(1874-11-13) (aged 49)
Kew, Surrey, England
Spouse(s)Joseph Dalton Hooker

In 1872, Hooker translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English from the original French.[1]

Biography

The daughter of Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge,[2] she was born Frances Harriet Henslow in Cambridge.[3]

In 1851, she married Joseph Dalton Hooker;[4] the couple had four sons and three daughters.[2] Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator;[5] her son Reginald Hawthorn Hooker was a statistician.

Hooker died in Kew at the age of 49.[3]

References
  1. "Hooker, Frances Harriet (1825-1874), botanist". British National Archives.
  2. Curtis, Winifred M. (1972). "Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817–1911)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. Desmond, Ray (1977). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. p. 1550. ISBN 1466573872.
  4. Britten, James (1889). The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. Volume 27. p. 115.
  5. Darwin, Charles (1876). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 24. p. 1984. ISBN 1316851737.
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