William Hooker

William Hooker

Sir William Hooker
Born	1785
Died	1865
Occupation	botanist artist academic
Society Membership membership ESL paper only clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society

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House Notes

Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English systematic botanist and organiser, and botanical illustrator. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring, collecting and organising work. His son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, succeeded him to the Directorship of Kew Gardens

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1824

Eminent Botanist, traveller, Gentleman-scientist, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Author of many scientific books, and the scientific travel narrative Tour in Iceland (1809). Burton corresponded with Hooker, being known to him since at least the early 1850s, when still in India, and sent him botanical specimens and queries. Hooker had no formal botanical training before becoming Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, between 1820 and 1840, through the influence of Sir Joseph Banks. Subsequently he was Director of Kew Gardens, where he was succeeded by his son Joseph Dalton Hooker (see below).

Publications

External Publications

Tour in Iceland (1809)

House Publications

Observations on some of the distant tribes of British North America – communicated through Sir William Hooker to Dr Hodgkin 12 apr 1860