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Joseph Dalton Hooker

1817 - 1911

Born

30 June 1817

Halesworth, Suffolk, England

Died

10/12/1911

His house 'The Camp' at Sunningdale, Berkshire

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
22/04/1847
Fields of Interest
Botany
Relationships
Son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (FRS 1812); grandson of Dawson Turner (FRS 1802); married 1) (1851) Francis Harriet, daughter of John Stevens Henslow, botanist (died 1874), 2) (1876) Hyacinth, daughter of William Symonds, geologist and widow of Sir William Jardine (FRS 1860); father-in-law of Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer (FRS 1880)