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SUMMARY:Who was Henslow? - Kate Hooper (Independent Researcher)
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DESCRIPTION:Kate Hooper has just published her first book\, _Who Was Hensl
 ow?_\, a biography of John Stevens Henslow. This year marks the bicentenar
 y of Henslow being appointed Professor of Botany in Cambridge\, in 1825.\n
 \nKate enjoyed a 37-year career as an NHS doctor. However\, her love of pl
 ants begun with her own small patch of garden aged five in Hertfordshire\,
  developing her own garden to studying Garden Design and horticulture part
 -time at Writtle and West Anglia Colleges respectively. Having founded Per
 fect Circle Designs in 2002\, she designed and landscaped gardens in the U
 K and France with her business partner. She enjoys gardening with her husb
 and in the mild dry climate of South Cambridgeshire.\n\nFollowing the birt
 h of her first grandson\, Kate hung up her stethoscope in 2022. She was de
 lighted to be accepted both as a Volunteer Garden Guide and Herbarium Volu
 nteer at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. It was then she began to ask
  questions about Henslow. Why did he take on the Chair of Botany when he w
 as already Professor of Mineralogy? How did he manage to persuade the Univ
 ersity to buy 40 acres of land in central Cambridge for the study of botan
 y? Why did he move his family to a small parish in Suffolk\, before the ne
 w Botanic Garden opened? Despite a lifelong desire to travel why did he fo
 rego the chance to join the _Beagle_ voyage of 1831? (He let his most famo
 us student\, Charles Darwin\, travel instead.) As a devout Christian\, how
  did he react to Darwin's famous book\, _On the Origin of the Species_?
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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