| Frances Harriet Hooker | |
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| Born | Frances Harriet Henslow (1825-04-30)30 April 1825 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 13 November 1874(1874-11-13) (aged 49) Kew, Surrey, England |
| Spouse | Joseph 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.
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; the couple had four sons and three daughters. Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator; her son, Reginald, was a statistician.
Death
Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.
References
- "Hooker, Frances Harriet (1825-1874), botanist". British National Archives.
- ^ Curtis, Winifred M. (1972). "Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817–1911)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
- ^ 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. Vol. 27. p. 115.
- Darwin, Charles (1876). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 24. p. 1984. ISBN 1316851737.