William Henslow Hooker (1853–1942)

Eldest child of Frances Harriet and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Civil servant, India Office, 1877–1904. Encouraged imperial ties between metropolitan institutions (particularly the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) and British East Africa, circa 1896–1906.

Sources

Allan 1967

India list 1904–5

Zanzibar Gazette, 5 February 1896, p. 6, and 28 November 1900, p. 5.