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
SpouseJoseph Dalton Hooker

Frances Harriet Hooker (née 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,[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, was a statistician.

Death

Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Hooker, Frances Harriet (1825-1874), botanist". British National Archives.
  2. 1 2 Curtis, Winifred M. (1972). "Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817–1911)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538.
  3. 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.
  4. ↑ Britten, James (1889). The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. Vol. 27. p. 115.
  5. ↑ Darwin, Charles (1876). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 24. p. 1984. ISBN 1316851737.
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