botanist
William Jackson Hooker.
English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)
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About William Jackson Hooker
William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Everything about William Jackson Hooker →- Occupation
- botanist, university teacher, illustrator, pteridologist
- Position held
- Regius Professor of Botany
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- July 6, 1785, 1785
- Died
- August 12, 1865, 1865