Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer (1854-1945) was a British

Great Britain

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 botanical illustrator

Illustrator

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. She studied with Walter Hood Fitch

Walter Hood Fitch

Walter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...

. After Fitch resigned from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, she rendered almost 100 illustrations for publication during the period 1878-1880, helping to keep the magazine viable. Thiselton-Dyer was also known as an accomplished gardener

Gardening

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She was the daughter of Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...

 and Frances Harriet Henslow. In 1877 she married the botanist, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer KCMG FRS FLS was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.- Life and career :Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London...

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