Frances Harriet Hooker

Frances Harriet Hooker
Born Frances Harriet Henslow
(1825-04-30)April 30, 1825
Cambridge, England
Died November 13, 1874(1874-11-13) (aged 49)
Kew, Surrey, England
Spouse(s) Joseph Dalton Hooker

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

The daughter of Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge,[1] she was born Frances Harriet Henslow in Cambridge.[2]

In 1851, she married Joseph Dalton Hooker;[3] the couple had four sons and three daughters.[1] Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator;[4] her son Reginald Hawthorn Hooker was a statistician.

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.[5]

Hooker died in Kew at the age of 49.[2]

References

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