Frances Harriet Hooker
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| Born | Frances Harriet Henslow 30 April 1825 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 13 November 1874 (aged 49) Kew, Surrey, England |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Frances Harriet Hooker (30 April 1825 – 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.
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[]
- ^ "Hooker, Frances Harriet (1825-1874), botanist". British National Archives.
- ^ Jump up to: a b 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.
|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Jump up to: a b Desmond, Ray (1977). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. p. 1550. ISBN 1466573872.
- ^ Britten, James (1889). The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. Volume 27. p. 115.
|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Darwin, Charles (1876). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 24. p. 1984. ISBN 1316851737.
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- 1825 births
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- English botanists
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- 19th-century British translators