Person Hooker; Sir; Joseph Dalton (1817 - 1911); Botanist Hooker Joseph Dalton Sir Botanist 1817 - 1911 British Male Halesworth, Suffolk, England 30 June 1817 His house 'The Camp' at Sunningdale, Berkshire 10/12/1911 19111210 Burial: Kew, Surrey

West Park, Kew (1847)

Botany Education: Glasgow University. MD (1839) Career: Went to the Antarctic on the 'Erebus' as Assistant Surgeon under Sir James Clark Ross (FRS 1828) (1839-1843), during which voyage he visited New Zealand (1841); Botanist to the Geological Survey (1845); sent to explore the central and eastern Himalaya (1848-1849); explored Sikhim, parts of eastern Nepal and the passes of Tibet; botanical expedition to east Bengal with Thomas Thomson (FRS 1855) (1850); Assistant Director, Kew Gardens (1855); Director, Kew Gardens (1865); published, with George Bentham (FRS 1862) 'Genera plantarum' (from 1862); President, British Association (1868); retired to Sunningdale (1885) Honours: CB 1869; KCSI 1877; GCSI 1897; OM 1907 Memberships: Hon RSNZ (1870) 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) Royal Society roles: PRS 1873-1878; VP 1857-1858, 1863-1864, 1878-1880, 1884-1886 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1854; Copley Medal 1887; Darwin Medal 1892 Fellow 22/04/1847 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1912 vol 85 pp i-xxxv, three plates, signed by W T T-D References: W B Turrill, 'Joseph Dalton Hooker, FRS (1817-1911)' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 109-120, plate Sir Edward Salisbury, 'Epilogue' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 139-141 Roy M MacLeod, 'The X-Club: A Social Network of Science in Late-Victorian England' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 305-322 Maurice Crosland, 'Explicit Qualifications as a Criterion for Membership of the Royal Society: A Historical Review' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 167-187 Susan Sheets-Pyenson, '"Pearls Before Swine": Sir William Dawson's Bakerian Lecture of 1870' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 177-191 Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281 G E Fogg, 'The Royal Society and the Antarctic' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 85-98 Gudrun Richardson, 'A Norfolk Network within the Royal Society' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 27-39, plate A Cohen, 'Roland Trimen and the merope harem' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 205-218 R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159 Hooker P0071 600.jpg Hooker P0071 600.jpg ©The Royal Society NA1287 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9275 30 Jun 1817 - 10 Dec 1911 NA7983 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 11/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/17306215 d762e21d-cd05-458b-a798-19f391cc35bb