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Hook. Signature. Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum.
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Sir William Jackson Hooker (born July 6, 1785, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died August 12, 1865, Kew, Surrey) was an English botanist who was the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens), near London. He greatly advanced the knowledge of ferns, algae, lichens, and fungi as well as of higher plants.
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May 17, 2018 · Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785–1865) A British botanist and authority on cryptogamic botany, who became the first director (1841–65) of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He studied the botany of Iceland (1809) and of France, Switzerland, and northern Italy (1814). He was appointed regius professor of botany at the University of Glasgow ...
Hooker, Sir William Jackson ( 1785–1865 ), botanist, was born on 6 July 1785 at 71–7 Magdalen Street, Norwich, the second of the two children of Joseph Hooker (1754–1845) and his wife, Lydia, née Vincent (1759–1829). Joseph Hooker was distantly related to the Baring brothers and was a confidential clerk in their Norwich office, trading ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
William Jackson Hooker. Sir William Jackson Hooker was born on 6th July 1785 in Magdalen Street, Norwich, Norfolk, son of Joseph Hooker (born 1754, died 1845) and Lydia Hooker née Vincent (born 1759, died 1829). His father, who worked in Norwich for Baring Brothers & Company, was an amateur botanist and collected succulent plants.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) B orn in Norwich, England, on July 6 th, 1785, died in London, England, on August 12 th, 1865. Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew and father of Joseph Dalton Hooker. William Jackson Hooker was born in Norwich, England and was educated at the local grammar school and later at Starston Hall where he ...
