William Dawson Hooker

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William Dawson Hooker (born April 4, 1816 in Halesworth , † January 1, 1840 in Kingston , Jamaica ) was a British doctor. He was the brother of Joseph Dalton Hooker .

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William Dawson Hooker was the eldest son of William Jackson Hooker and his wife Maria Sarah Turner (1797–1872). He first attended Glasgow High School with his brother Joseph . In 1832 both began to study at the University of Glasgow . In 1836 Hooker traveled to Norway together with William Christy (approx. 1807-1839) and published his notes on this trip the following year. In 1838 he received his doctorate in medicine (MD). From 1838 to 1839 he taught materia medica at Anderson's University in Glasgow . Hooker's trial lecture from 1839 at the University of Glasgow on the cinchona trees was dedicated to the local Regius Professor of Surgery John Burns (1774-1850). On April 22, 1839, he married Isabella Whitelaw Smith. Their daughter Wilhelmina was born on March 6, 1840.

Hooker was sent to Jamaica by his father to cure himself of consumption and to set up a medical practice there. There he died of yellow fever on New Year's Day in 1840 in the house of doctor James Macfadyen (1798–1850) . Hooker left an extensive ornithological collection.

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  • Notes on Norway. Or, A Brief Journal of a Tour Made to the Northern Parts of Norway, in the Summer of MDCCCXXXVI .
    • 1st edition, G. Richardson, Glasgow 1837
    • 2nd edition, G. Richardson, Glasgow 1839 ( online ).
  • Inaugural dissertation upon the cinchonas, their history, uses, and effects . Khull, Glasgow 1839 ( online ).

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literature

  • William Innes Addison: A Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow from 31st December 1727 to 31st December 1897, with short biographical notes . James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow 1898, p. 272 ​​( online ).
  • Alexander Duncan: Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850; with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the medical profession in the west of Scotland . James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow 1896, pp. 287-288 ( online ).
  • Sylvia FitzGerald, 'Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 accessed 4 Oct 2013
  • Harold Lambert: The other Dr Hooker: William Dawson Hooker (1816-1840) . In: Journal of Medical Biography . Volume 19, number 4, 2011, pp. 141-144 ( doi: 10.1258 / jmb.2011.010062 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard Huxley: Life & Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker . Volume 1, J. Murray, London 1918, p. 22 ( online ).
  2. ^ Leonard Huxley: Life & Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker . Volume 1, J. Murray, London 1918, p. 24 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Obituary . In: The Gardener's Magazine . Volume 15, 1839, p. 536 ( online ).
  4. ↑ University Chairs (PDF; 96 kB)
  5. ^ A b c Charles John Palmer, Stephen Tucker: Palgrave Family Memorials . Norwich 1878, p. 91 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Hooker, William Dawson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Halesworth
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1840
Place of death Kingston , Jamaica