Frances Harriet Hooker | |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1825 |
Birth Place: | Cambridge, England |
Birth Name: | Frances Harriet Henslow |
Spouse: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Death Place: | Kew, Surrey, England |
Frances Harriet Hooker (Henslow; 30 April 1825 - 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.
In 1872, she translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English from the original French.[1]
The daughter of Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge, she was born Frances Harriet Henslow in Cambridge.
In 1851, she married Joseph Dalton Hooker;[2] the couple had four sons and three daughters.[3] Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator;[4] her son, Reginald, was a statistician.
Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.[5]