In 1796 [his step-father] Dawson Turner [aged 20] and [his mother] Mary Palgrave [aged 52] were married. They had eleven children, some sources say twelve, of which eight survived to adulthood. The difference in their ages was 31 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
In June 1815 [his father] William Jackson Hooker [aged 29] and [his mother] Mary Palgrave [aged 71] were married. They had five children. The difference in their ages was 41 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 30th June 1817 John Dalton Hooker was born to William Jackson Hooker [aged 31] and Mary Palgrave [aged 73].
In 1847 John Dalton Hooker [aged 29] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1847 John Dalton Hooker [aged 29] was elected President of the Royal Society.
In 1850 [his mother] Mary Palgrave died.
In 1851 John Dalton Hooker [aged 33] and Frances Harriet Henslow [aged 25] were married. They had seven children.
On 12th August 1865 [his father] William Jackson Hooker [aged 80] died.
On 13th November 1874 [his wife] Frances Harriet Henslow [aged 49] died.
Before 21st November 1874 William Jardine 7th Baronet [aged 74] and [his future wife] Hyacinth Symonds Lady Jardine were married.
In 1876 John Dalton Hooker [aged 58] and Hyacinth Symonds Lady Jardine were married. They had two sons.
1880. John Collier [aged 29]. Portrait of John Dalton Hooker [aged 62].
On 14th January 1893 [his step-son] Alexander Jardine 8th Baronet [aged 63] died.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 10th December 1911 John Dalton Hooker [aged 94] died.
father: William Jackson Hooker
Grandfather: William Palgrave
mother: Mary Palgrave