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
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Arthur Bennett
- 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
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Harold Downes
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Charles Bailey
- Robert MacKechnie
- Rowland John Burdon
- J E Clark
- Richard Spiers Standen
- R W David
- Margaret Dawber
- McTaggert Cowan
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- William Richardson Linton
- National Museum of Wales
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Stanley Wilson Greene
- The South London Botanical Institute
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- George Claridge Druce
- Charles Edward Britton
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- Newman Neild
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Augustin Ley
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Frederic Henry Ward
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- A Hosking
- John Wilton Haines
- William Hunt Painter
- St John Marriott
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- John Edwards Griffith
- Philip M Smith
- Patrick Martin Hall
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- H Corder
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- Francis Rilstone
- J Comber
- Henry Francois Devis
- Joseph Barnabas French
- John Wesley Carr
- George Taylor
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- Noel Yvri Sandwith
- William Mateer
- Arthur Edward Wade
- Amy Jane Clark
- E Ellman
- Benjamin Dornale Wardale
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- H C Littlebury
- David Elliston Allen
- Norman Douglas Simpson
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- John Tatham
- John Gilbert Baker
- Phineas Fox Lee
- Thomas Archibald Sprague
- Hugh M Balfour
- Willis Openshaw Howarth
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Edmund Browne Bishop
- John Drew Salmon
- Henry Peter Reader
- Gerald Mortimer Ash
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- Joseph Fry Pickard
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- James Alexander Brewer
- Daniel Oliver
- John Coombes Collins
- Frederick Long
- Alfred James Wilmott
- W Robinson
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Edmund Gilbert Baker
- W H Pearsall
- M E Fuller
- Hughes
- William Curnow
- William Harold Pearsall
- George Maw
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- William Bell
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- H J Gibbons
- Frederick Raine
- Norman George Hadden
- John Frederick Gustav Chapple
- John Storey
- Ernest Ellman
- William Robert Crotch
- William Duppa Miller
- Albert Wilson
- G Waterfall
- J Collins
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Thomas Moore
- Arnold Eliott
- James Alexander Ratter
- Douglas Montague Heath
- David Guthrie Catcheside
- Peter Gray
- Matilda Cullen Knowles
- Francis Druce
- Robert Reid Mill
- Joseph Sidebotham
Collection activity by county
1881
1939
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.