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See also: judge, See also: Nicholas See also: Ball, was See also: born at See also: Dublin on the loth of See also: August 1818
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He was educated at the See also: Roman Catholic See also: College at Oscott near See also: Birmingham, and at Christ's College, Cambridge
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He showed in early years a taste for natural science, particularly 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 county of See also: Carlow in the Liberal See also: interest
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In the See also: House of See also: Commons he attracted See also: Lord 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
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At the colonial office he had See also: great 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
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See also: Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras
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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 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
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
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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
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He died in London on the 21st of See also: October 1889
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