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See also:BALL, See also:JOHN (1818-1889) , Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller, eldest son of an Irish See also:judge, See also:Nicholas Ball, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the loth of See also:August 1818. He was educated at the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:College at Oscott near See also:Birmingham, and at See also:Christ's College, See also:Cambridge. He showed in See also:early years a See also:taste for natural See also:science, particularly See also:botany; and after leaving Cambridge he travelled in See also:Switzerland and elsewhere in See also:Europe, studying his favourite pursuits, and contributing papers on botany and the Swiss glaciers to scientific See also:periodicals. In 1846 he was made an assistant poor-See also:law See also:commissioner, but resigned in 1847, and in 1848 stood unsuccessfully as a See also:parliamentary See also:candidate for See also:Sligo. In 1849 he was appointed second poor-law commissioner, but resigned in 1852 and successfully contested the See also:county of See also:Carlow in the Liberal See also:interest. In the See also:House of See also:Commons he attracted See also:Lord See also:Palmerston's See also:attention by his abilities, and in 1885 was made under-secretary for the colonies, a See also:post which he held for two years. At the colonial See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he had See also:great See also:influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connexion with equipment of the Palliser expedition in See also:Canada, and with See also:Sir W. See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras. In 1858 he stood for See also:Limerick, but was beaten, and he then gave up politics and devoted himself to natural See also:history. He was first See also:president of the Alpine See also:Club (founded 1857), and it is for his See also:work as an Alpinist that he is chiefly remembered, his well-known Alpine
See also:Guide (See also:London, 1863-1868) being the result of innumerable climbs and journeys and of careful observation recorded in a clear and often entertaining See also:style. He also travelled in See also:Morocco (1871) and See also:South See also:America (1882), and recorded his observations in books which were recognized as having a scientific value. He died in London on the 21st of See also:October 1889.
End of Article: BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
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