# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-jackson-hooker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:33:01.920Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-jackson-hooker"
name: "William Jackson Hooker"
slug: "william-jackson-hooker"
description: "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. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1785-07-06"
deathDate: "1865-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump