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Noun Named Entity
Categories: 1785 births, Botanical illustrators, Economic botanists, 1865 deaths, long volume value
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William Jackson Hooker  Hook.  Sir William Hooker  Sir William Jackson Hooker  W.J. Hooker
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Sir 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. Wikipedia
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Sir 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. Wikipedia
English botanist and botanical illustrator Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
homo
CHILD
Joseph Dalton Hooker
William Dawson Hooker
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
James Edward Smith
EDUCATED AT
Norwich School
EMPLOYER
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
University of Glasgow
FAMILY NAME
Hooker
FIELD OF WORK
botany
plant taxonomy
GIVEN NAME
William
Jackson
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Minneapolis Institute of Art
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Russian Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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OCCUPATION
writer
illustrator
botanist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Norwich
PLACE OF BURIAL
St Anne's Church, Kew
PLACE OF DEATH
Kew
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Joseph Dalton Hooker
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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William Jackson Hooker
Wikidata
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William Jackson Hooker
Wikipedia Redirections
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W.J.Hooker
Wikidata Alias
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Hook., Sir William Hooker, Sir William Jackson Hooker, W.J. Hooker

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