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HARRIET, daughter of Sir Joseph Hooker, granddaughter of Sir William Hooker and of Prof. Henslow the Cambridge botanist, wife of Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, died, ninety-one years old, in her house near Bere Alston a few days before Christmas Day. She had lived in Kew from childhood to ripe age; her father became assistant-director there under his father the year after she was born, and took over the control ten years later. Sir William Hooker's job had been to turn the private garden of a queen into a garden for the nation and the world; Sir Joseph added nobly to its fame and usefulness, and so did Thiselton-Dyer until he too ceased from his labours. His wife made Kew a very hospitable place; for many years a vacant place was set, and was seldom unoccupied, at every midday meal.
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THOMPSON, D. Lady Thiselton-Dyer. Nature 157, 186 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157186a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157186a0