William Jackson Hooker
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- Born
- 1785-01-01
- Died
- 1865-01-01
- Works
- 88
Top works
- Icones Plantarum or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium. ; V. 22 (1894)
- Icones Plantarum or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium. ; V. 24 (1895)
- Icones Plantarum
- Icones Plantarum or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium. ; V. 20 (1891)
- Icones Plantarum or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium. ; V. 10 (1854)
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Key facts
- Born
- 6 July 1785, Norwich , England, Great Britain
- Died
- 12 August 1865 (aged 80), London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , United Kingdom
- Alma mater
- Norwich School
- Known for
- Founding the Kew Herbarium
- Fields
- Botany
- Institutions
- Kew Gardens Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow
- Author abbrev botany
- Hook.
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1785
- Died
- 1 January 1865
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jackson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Norwich
- Place of death
- Kew
- Occupation
- director
- Employer
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
William Jackson Hooker (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. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Hooker was born and educated in Norwich. An inheritance gave him the means to travel and to devote himself to the study of natural history, particularly botany. He published his account of an expedition to Iceland in 1809, even though his notes and specimens were destroyed during his voyage home. He married Maria, the eldest daughter of the Norfolk banker Dawson Turner, in 1815, afterwards living in Halesworth for 11 years, where he established a herbarium that became renowned by botanists at the time.
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1785 births1865 deaths19th-century English botanistsAcademics of the University of GlasgowBotanists active in Kew GardensBotanists with author abbreviationsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish pteridologistsBryologistsBurials at St. Anne's Church, KewCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesEconomic botanists