Frances Harriet Hooker

Frances Harriet Hooker ( Henslow; 30 April 1825 – 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.

In 1872, she 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, was a statistician.

Death
Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.