William Jackson Hooker

Also known as Sir William Jackson Hooker, Sir William Hooker, Hook., W. J. Hooker

English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)

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William Jackson Hooker was a British botanist, university teacher, illustrator, and writer. Born in Norwich in 1785, he worked at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His field of work included botany and plant taxonomy. He studied under James Edward Smith and had five children, including the student Joseph Dalton Hooker.

Hooker was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He received the award of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable work is Icones Plantarum. He died in Kew in 1865. His works are held in collections at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, the Natural History Museum in Vienna, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and Harvard University Herbaria.

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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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Instance of: human
Given name: Jackson
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Place of birth: Norwich
Place of death: Kew
Employer: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Doctoral advisor: James Edward Smith
Field of work: plant taxonomy
Image: William Jackson Hooker by Spiridione Gambardella.jpg
Number of children: 5

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member of: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Commons category: William Jackson Hooker
date of birth: 1785-01-01
date of death: 1865-01-01
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Commons gallery: William Jackson Hooker
name in native language: William Jackson Hooker
student: Joseph Dalton Hooker
has works in the collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art
writing language: English language
Commons Creator page: William Jackson Hooker
P6944: William Jackson Hooker
collection items at: National Museum of Natural History

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6 objects attributed to William Jackson Hooker, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Letter from William Jackson Hooker to Adelbert von Chamisso

William Jackson Hooker to Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu

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Encyclopedic overview

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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