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