See also: William Hooker, Hooker

Sir William Jackson Hooker is a British Botaniste , born the July 6th 1785 with Norwich and dead the August 12th 1865 with London, in the royal Botanical gardens of Kew.

He is the son of Joseph Hooker. After studies near the tutors, it obtains off his Doctorat Laws with Glasgow and a honorary Doctorat in civil law with Oxford. He studies the flora of Scotland (1806), of Iceland (1809), of France, of Switzerland and Italy (1814). He settles in Halesworth, in the Suffolk in 1815 and remains there until in 1820. He then becomes holder of the royal Chaire of botany at the university of Glasgow and directs the royal Botanical gardens of Kew starting from 1841, function which he preserves until his death. He founds with John Stevens Henslow (1795-1861), in Kew, the first natural history museum devoted to the plants of economic importance in 1847.

Hooker becomes member of the Royal Society in 1812, of the Société linnéenne of London and many others learned societies. He is the author of research on the Fougère S and on the foam S. He is many books of botany of which:

• British Jungermanniæ (1816).

• Flora Scotia (1821).
• Icons Plantarum (ten volumes, 1827-1854).
• The British Flora (two volumes, 1830-1836).
• Generated Filicum (1842).
• Species filicum (five volumes, 1846-1864).
• Synopsis filicum (1868).

His/her son is the explorer and botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).