Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS

Birth date – 30 June 1817 [1]

Birth Place – Halesworth, Suffolk, England

Date of Death – 10 Dec 1911

Place of Death – Sunningdale, Berkshire, England

Parents

Father – William Jackson Hooker (6 Jul 1785 – 12 Aug 1865) [2] Mother – Maria DawsonTurner (1797-1892)

1st Marriage - Frances Harriet Henslow (1825–1874), daughter of Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) and Harriet Jenyns (1797-1858) [2] Children They had four sons and three daughters: William Henslow Hooker (1853–1942) Harriet Anne Hooker (1854–1945) married William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Charles Paget Hooker (1855–1933) Marie Elizabeth Hooker (1857–1863) died aged 6. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker (1860–1932) Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944) statistician Grace Ellen Hooker (1868–1873) died aged 5.

2nd Marriage 1876 he married Hyacinthe Jardine (1842–1921), daughter of William Samuel Symonds (1818-1887) and Hyacinthe Catherine Kent (c1818-1907) The widow of Sir William Jardine. Children They had two sons: Joseph Symonds Hooker (1877–1940) Richard Symonds Hooker (1885–1950).

Occupation - Botanist and Explorer/traveller; biogeographer

Honours and Awards He received numerous honorary degrees including ones from Oxford and Cambridge. In addition to those listed below he received many prizes and awards from both British and foreign scientific societies; the full list of his honours runs to ten pages (Huxley 1918: 507–517)

C.B. in 1869; K.C.S.I. in 1877; G.C.S.I. in 1897; Order of Merit in 1907. Royal Society - royal medal in 1854, the Copley in 1887, and the Darwin in 1892.

Career

He took up the position of Botanist with the Geological survey of Great Britain and worked on palaeobotany.

He was a founder of geographical botany, and one of Charles Darwin's closest friends.

In 1855 Hooker was appointed Assistant-Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, in 1865 and remained director until he retired in 1885.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society when he was 30.

Travel

Assistant Surgeon in the R.N. Naturalist in Sir J. C. Ross's Antarctic Expedition, 1839-43. [1][3]

He visited an number of places collecting plants. these included the Antarctic 1839-43; Himalayas and India 1847-51; Palestine 1870, Morocco 1871 and western USA 1877.

Publications He had many significant publications includingGenera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita which was published with George Bentham.

Other Notes “… there are portraits of him at the Royal and Linnean Societies and numerous photographs and drawings at Kew.” [3]

Notes, References, Sources/Links, Family Trees etc.

[1] Hon. LL.D. 1866. 2nd s. of Sir William Jackson, Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow. B. June 30, 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. M.A., Glasgow, 1839. Hon. LL.D., Glasgow, 1873; LL.D., Edin., 1884. F.R.S., 1847. F.L.S., 1839. Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1866. Assistant Surgeon in the R.N. Naturalist in Sir J. C. Ross's Antarctic Expedition, 1839-43. Botanist to the Geological Survey, 1845. Assistant Director at Kew, 1855; succeeded his father as Director, 1865-85; retired. President of the Royal Society, 1873-8. C.B., 1869. K.C.S.I., 1877. G.C.S.I., 1897. O.M., 1907. Married (1) 1851, Frances Harriet, dau. of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, and had issue; (2) 1876, Hyacinth, dau. of the Rev. W. S. Symonds and widow of Sir W. Jardine, Bart. Died Dec. 9, 1911, at his residence, The Camp, Sunningdale. Father of the next two. (Scott, MSS.; Who was Who; D.N.B.; C. J. Fordyce; The Times, Dec. 12, 1911.)
Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.

[2] Ancestry.co.uk Public Tree – Symonds Family Tree, owner geoligicalandrew (Extensive tree)

[3] A wealth of information is available at J D Hooker website a site run by Jim Endersby, a lecturer in the History department at the University of Sussex, on an entirely non-profit basis, for the information of anyone interested in Hooker, the history of botany and related matters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentham_%26_Hooker_system Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006).

Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 452

"Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker", Westminster Abbey

• Residence: Mar 31 1901 - Windlesham, Surrey, England
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