About William Dawson Hooker
Lived 1816 – 1840 (aged 23–24). William Dawson Hooker was a British physician and botanist.
William Dawson Hooker, M.D. (1816–1840) was a British medical doctor and botanist, the son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and an elder brother to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the botanists who created the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Life Hooker was born on 4 April 1816. An 1839 dissertation on the cinchonas and their use in treating malarial fever earned him admission to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The same year he travelled to northern Norway, producing notes on various topics including local customs of the Laplanders, flora, and fauna. Intending to improve his poor health, he took passage to Kingston, Jamaica, but instead died there of yellow fever on 7 January 1840.
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Who was William Dawson Hooker?
British physician (1816-1840)
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William Dawson Hooker was born on 4 April 1816 in Halesworth.
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William Dawson Hooker died in 1840.
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William Dawson Hooker was a physician and botanist.
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William Dawson Hooker was British.
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