Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Joseph Dalton Hooker, the younger son of Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, afterwards Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and his wife Maria, eldest daughter of Dawson Turner, F. R. S., banker, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was born at Halesworth, Suffolk, June 30, 1817. Sir William Hooker (d . 1865) was himself the younger son of Joseph Hooker, a native of Exeter, where he had been in the employ of Baring Brothers, woolstaplers, with whose family he was distantly connected, and had afterwards gone into business at Norwich. There he married Lydia, daughter of James Vincent, worsted manufacturer, grandfather of George Vincent, the artist. Joseph Hooker was seventh in descent from John Hooker,alias Vowell, editor of ‘Holinshed’s Chronicles,’ and uncle of Richard Hooker, the theologian.