About Frances Hooker
Lived 1825 – 1874 (aged 49). Frances Hooker was a British translator and botanist.
Frances Harriet Hooker ( Henslow; 30 April 1825 – 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.
In 1872, she translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English from the original French.
Biography The daughter of Reverend John Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge, the couple had four sons and three daughters. Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator; her son, Reginald, was a statistician.
Death Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.
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Who was Frances Hooker?
artist, wife of Joseph Dalton Hooker (1825-1874)
When was Frances Hooker born?
Frances Hooker was born on 30 April 1825 in Cambridge.
When did Frances Hooker die?
Frances Hooker died on 13 November 1874 in Kew.
What was Frances Hooker's occupation?
Frances Hooker was a translator and botanist.
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Frances Hooker was British.
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· DBpedia: Frances Harriet Hooker
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