Frances Harriet Hooker
Frances Harriet Hooker was an English botanist.
In 1872, Hooker translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English from the original French.Biography
The daughter of Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge, she was born Frances Harriet Henslow in Cambridge.
In 1851, she married Joseph Dalton Hooker; the couple had four sons and three daughters. Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator; her son Reginald Hawthorn Hooker was a statistician.
Hooker died in Kew at the age of 49.
