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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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Personal name headingHooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865
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Variant(s)Hooker, W. J. (William Jackson), Sir, 1785-1865
Hooker, William, Sir, 1785-1865
Associated countryGreat Britain Scotland
Associated placeGlasgow (Scotland) Iceland
Birth date1785-07-06
Death date1865-08-12
Place of birthNorwich (England)
Place of deathKew (London, England)
Field of activityBotany Botany, Economic Cryptogams
AffiliationUniversity of Glasgow
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Profession or occupationBotanists Botany teachers Botanical garden directors Plant collectors College teachers
Found inBotanical miscellany, 1984- : v. 1, t.p. (William Jackson Hooker)
LC data base, 6/6/85 (hdg.: Hooker William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865; usage: Sir William Hooker; Sir William Jackson Hooker; W.H. Hooker)
Murray, Hugh. An Encyclopædia of Geography, 1840: title page (Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H. LL.D. F.R.A. & L.S., Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew website, viewed January 31, 2025 (Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the most important botanists of the 19th century; his father, William Jackson Hooker, was appointed Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University in 1820 and later became the first official director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841; Hooker began attending his father's lectures as a young boy; Joseph Dalton Hooker followed his father's footsteps as Director (1865-1885))
   <https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/sir-joseph-dalton-hooker>
Britannica (online), Sir William Jackson Hooker, British botanist; born July 6, 1785, Norwich, Norfolk, England; died August 12, 1865, Kew, Surrey; advanced knowledge of ferns, algae, lichens, and fungi, as well as of higher plants; educated at Norwich Grammar School; traveled to Iceland in 1809, published Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809 (1811); studied in England, then traveled to France, Switzerland, and Italy in 1814-15, meeting some of the leading Continental botanists; married Maria Turner, daughter of the botanist Dawson Turner, in 1815; the second of their five children, Joseph Dalton Hooker, also became a famous botanist; Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University 1820-1841; made a knight of Hanover in 1836; his main interest was in cryptogamic botany (ferns, mosses, fungi); also published important floristic studies, including Flora Borealis Americana; or, The Botany of the Northern Parts of British America (1840); a pioneer in economic botany, founded the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew in 1847)
   <https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Jackson-Hooker>
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