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
- E Ellman
- Henry Francois Devis
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Job Edward Lousley
- John Wilton Haines
- Newman Neild
- Ernest Ellman
- Francis Druce
- E S Tregelles
- Ida Mary Roper
- Edward Charles Wallace
- Leslie Beeching Hall
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
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- 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
- George Hartley Bryan
- Arthur Bennett
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Alexander Somerville
- Ivor W Evans
- John P Savidge
- David Thomson Playfair
- L D Pitt
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Harold Downes
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- George Goode
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Charles Bailey
- Robert MacKechnie
- J E Clark
- Rowland John Burdon
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Margaret Dawber
- R W David
- William Richardson Linton
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- National Museum of Wales
- McTaggert Cowan
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Stanley Wilson Greene
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- The South London Botanical Institute
- Charles Edward Britton
- George Claridge Druce
- Newman Neild
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Augustin Ley
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Frederic Henry Ward
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- John Wilton Haines
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- A Hosking
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- John Edwards Griffith
- Patrick Martin Hall
- William Hunt Painter
- St John Marriott
- Philip M Smith
- H Corder
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- Francis Rilstone
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- Joseph Barnabas French
- J Comber
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Henry Francois Devis
- George Taylor
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- John Wesley Carr
- Arthur Edward Wade
- E Ellman
- Amy Jane Clark
- Noel Yvri Sandwith
- William Mateer
- H C Littlebury
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- Benjamin Dornale Wardale
- David Elliston Allen
- Norman Douglas Simpson
- John Gilbert Baker
- Phineas Fox Lee
- Willis Openshaw Howarth
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- John Tatham
- Thomas Archibald Sprague
- Hugh M Balfour
- Gerald Mortimer Ash
- Joseph Fry Pickard
- Daniel Oliver
- John Drew Salmon
- Edmund Browne Bishop
- James Alexander Brewer
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Henry Peter Reader
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- John Coombes Collins
- Edmund Gilbert Baker
- Frederick Long
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Alfred James Wilmott
- W Robinson
- M E Fuller
- George Maw
- William Bell
- H J Gibbons
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- William Harold Pearsall
- William Curnow
- Hughes
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- W H Pearsall
- James Alexander Ratter
- John Frederick Gustav Chapple
- Matilda Cullen Knowles
- William Duppa Miller
- Albert Wilson
- Douglas Montague Heath
- Ernest Ellman
- G Waterfall
- Joseph Sidebotham
- David Guthrie Catcheside
- Peter Gray
- Robert Reid Mill
- Norman George Hadden
- J Collins
- Thomas Moore
- Francis Druce
- Frederick Raine
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Arnold Eliott
- William Robert Crotch
- John Storey
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.
