Frances Harriet Hooker Explained

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]

Biography

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.

Death

Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hooker, Frances Harriet (1825-1874), botanist. British National Archives.
  2. Book: Britten, James . The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . 115 . 27 . 1889.
  3. hooker-sir-joseph-dalton-3789 . Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817–1911) . Winifred M. . Curtis. 4. 1972 .
  4. Book: Darwin, Charles . The Correspondence of Charles Darwin . 1984 . 1876 . 24 . 1316851737.
  5. Book: Desmond, Ray . Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . 1550 . 1977 . 1466573872.