Harold Stuart Thompson
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Mr Harold Stuart Thompson FLS, ALS (3/1870-3/3/1940)
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Biography
Harold Stuart Thompson was born the son of William T. Thompson and Agnes M. Fitzroy Thompson in 1870. He was the grandson of Francis James Thompson, through whom he was related to Thomas Clark.
He studied at Sidcot and Bootham schools, excelling in botany and physical geography. He devoted his life to the study and collection of wild flowers, and toured extensively throughout Europe, particularly Switzerland, in order to obtain specimens.
He was Honorary Secretary of the Watson Botanical Exchange Club, an associate of the Linnean Society, and a member of University Court at the University of Bristol.
He died on March 3, 1940, aged 69.
Author of "Sub-Alpine Plants, or Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows"
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
collected with
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Herbert William Pugsley
- Henry Francois Devis
- E Ellman
- Job Edward Lousley
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- John Wilton Haines
- Newman Neild
- Francis Druce
- Ernest Ellman
- E S Tregelles
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- Ida Mary Roper
- Edward Charles Wallace
associated with
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- Thomas Clark
- James B Phipps
- Job Edward Lousley
- Edward Charles Wallace
- William Charles Barton
- Joseph Edward Little
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- William Booth Waterfall
- Ida Mary Roper
- Herbert William Pugsley
- James Walter White
- Isaac A Helsby
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- J Fraser
- Cedric Bucknall
- Allan Octavian Hume
- James Edgar Dandy
- Charles Waterfall
- Botanical Society of London
- Eric Frederic Drabble
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Timothy C G Rich
- Coslett Herbert Waddell
- Edward Cleminshaw
- Edward Francis Linton
- Albert John Crosfield
- Arthur Langford Still
- Arthur Bennett
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Alexander Somerville
- George Hartley Bryan
- Ivor W Evans
- John P Savidge
- L D Pitt
- David Thomson Playfair
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- George Goode
- Harold Downes
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Charles Bailey
- Robert MacKechnie
- J E Clark
- Rowland John Burdon
- Richard Spiers Standen
- R W David
- Margaret Dawber
- National Museum of Wales
- William Richardson Linton
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- McTaggert Cowan
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Stanley Wilson Greene
- The South London Botanical Institute
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- Charles Edward Britton
- George Claridge Druce
- Newman Neild
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Augustin Ley
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- Frederic Henry Ward
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- A Hosking
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- John Wilton Haines
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- William Hunt Painter
- John Edwards Griffith
- St John Marriott
- Patrick Martin Hall
- Philip M Smith
- Francis Rilstone
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- J Comber
- H Corder
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- Joseph Barnabas French
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Henry Francois Devis
- George Taylor
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- John Wesley Carr
- E Ellman
- Arthur Edward Wade
- Amy Jane Clark
- Noel Yvri Sandwith
- William Mateer
- David Elliston Allen
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- Benjamin Dornale Wardale
- Norman Douglas Simpson
- H C Littlebury
- Hugh M Balfour
- Phineas Fox Lee
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- John Tatham
- John Gilbert Baker
- Willis Openshaw Howarth
- Thomas Archibald Sprague
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- Joseph Fry Pickard
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- James Alexander Brewer
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Daniel Oliver
- Henry Peter Reader
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- Gerald Mortimer Ash
- Edmund Browne Bishop
- John Drew Salmon
- John Coombes Collins
- Edmund Gilbert Baker
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Alfred James Wilmott
- Frederick Long
- W Robinson
- William Harold Pearsall
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- M E Fuller
- George Maw
- William Bell
- H J Gibbons
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- William Curnow
- Hughes
- W H Pearsall
- William Robert Crotch
- Albert Wilson
- John Frederick Gustav Chapple
- James Alexander Ratter
- Robert Reid Mill
- Peter Gray
- Ernest Ellman
- Joseph Sidebotham
- Norman George Hadden
- David Guthrie Catcheside
- J Collins
- Thomas Moore
- Francis Druce
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Douglas Montague Heath
- G Waterfall
- John Storey
- Arnold Eliott
- Matilda Cullen Knowles
- Frederick Raine
- William Duppa Miller
Collection activity by county
1881
1939
VC1
VC2, VC3, VC4
VC5, VC6, VC8, VC9, VC10, VC11, VC13
VC14, VC15, VC17, VC19, VC20, VC21
VC27, VC28, VC29
VC35, VC41, VC42, VC44, VC46, VC48, VC49
VC7, VC23, VC33, VC34, VC36, VC37, VC38, VC39, VC40, VC55, VC57
VC59, VC60, VC61, VC62, VC64, VC65, VC66, VC69, VC70
Examples of handwriting
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references and external links
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P35339&tabType=ARCHIVE
- Alpine Plants of Europe, together with Cultural Hints. By Harold Stuart Thompson, F.L.S. Pp. xvi + 274 + 64 coloured plates and a General Map of the Alps. London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1911.
- Subalpine Plants, or Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows. By Harold Stuart Thompson, F.L.S. Pp. xvi + 325 + 33 coloured plates and a (contoured) Map of the Alps (Bartholomew). London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1912.
