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Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir. An English botanist; born at Norwich, in 1785; died at Kew, Aug. 12, 1865. He was Regius professor of botany in Glasgow University in 1820–41, when he became director of the Kew Gardens. His best-known botanical works are: ‘Journal of a Tour in Iceland’ (1809); ‘Muscologia Britannica’ (1818), containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland; ‘The British Flora’ (1830); ‘British Ferns’ (1862); ‘Garden Ferns’ (1862).