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