Sir William Jackson Hooker

The third East Anglian Botanist to profoundly influence British bryology in the 19th Century.

"...some of Hooker’s ancestors were woollen- merchants in Devon. William’s father, Joseph Hooker (1753-1845) was a confidential clerk in a firm of wool-staplers at Exeter, but left to settle in Norwich, where he married the daughter of a worsted-manufacturer. Like his son, Joseph Hooker began his botanical career by studying mosses. William was born in Norwich, where his father was in business with Dawson Turner. Like Smith and Turner, William Hooker came into an inheritance sufficient to soften his exposure to life’s exigencies, so was able to devote much of his youth and early adulthood to natural history. He botanised in the wilds of Scotland with Turner in 1806, and after marrying his daughter Maria Sarah in 1815, the couple spent their honeymoon in Ireland where they met Whitley Stokes and Thomas Taylor."

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Other References

• 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
• Wikipedia contributors, "William Hooker (botanist)", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

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