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 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.
see also http://www.archive.org/stream/subalpineplantso00thomrich
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
collected with
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- E Ellman
- Herbert William Pugsley
- Joseph Edward Lousley
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Newman Neild
- H F Devis
- John William Haines
- Francis Druce
- Ida Mary Roper
- Edward Charles Wallace
associated with
- Thomas Clark
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- J B Phipps
- Edward Charles Wallace
- William Charles Barton
- Joseph Edward Lousley
- Joseph Edward Little
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Ida Mary Roper
- William Booth Waterfall
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- James Walter White
- Herbert William Pugsley
- University Of Birmingham
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Cedric Bucknall
- Charles Waterfall
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Botanical Society of London
- J Fraser
- Edward Francis Linton
- E Drabble Drabble, Dr E
- Edward Cleminshaw
- James Edgar Dandy
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Arthur Langford Still
- John P Savidge
- J E Clark
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Ivor W Evans
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Charles Bailey
- David Thomson Playfair
- Arthur Bennett
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Albert John Crosfield
- L D Pitt
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Rowland John Burdon
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- C H Waddell
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Augustin Ley
- McTaggert Cowan
- Margaret Dawber
- R W David
- The South London Botanical Institute
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- William Robert Sherrin
- Robert MacKechnie
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- George Claridge Druce
- Allan Octavian Hume
- G Goode
- William Richardson Linton
- Charles Edward Britton
- St John Marriott
- J B Marshall
- A Hosking
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- George Hartley Bryan
- Newman Neild
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- H Downes
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Coslett Herbert Waddell
- Arthur Edward Wade
- L B Hall
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Philip M Smith
- John Edwards Griffith
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- J Comber
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- G H Bryan
- National Museum of Wales
- William Hunt Painter
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- E Ellman
- Francis Rilstone
- Douglas Montague Heath
- A Somerville
- David Elliston Allen
- H Corder
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- Joannis Fraser
- Willis Openshaw Howarth
- John Tatham
- John Gilbert Baker
- Noel Yvri Sandwith
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- H C Littlebury
- John William Haines
- Timothy C G Rich
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- James Alexander Brewer
- Alexander Somerville
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- T Clark
- Edmund Gilbert Baker
- Hugh M Balfour
- W H Pearsall
- F H Ward
- H J Gibbons
- Richard Vowell Sherring
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Edmund Browne Bishop
- William West
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- Henry Peter Reader
- Amy J Clark
- George Taylor
- David Guthrie Catcheside
- W Robinson
- James Alexander Ratter
- A Somerville
- Peter Gray
- George Maw
- E S Salmon
- John Wesley Carr
- H F Devis
- M E Fuller
- Gerald Mortimer Ash
- John Storey
- S W Greene
Collection activity by county
1881
1939
VC1
VC8, VC10, VC11, VC13, VC14, VC17, VC18, VC19, VC20, VC21
VC28, VC29
VC2, VC3, VC4, VC5, VC6, VC9, VC35, VC41
VC44, VC45, VC46, VC48, VC49
VC7, VC23, VC33, VC34, VC36, VC37, VC38, VC39, VC40, VC55, VC57
VC59, VC60, VC61, VC62, VC63, VC64, VC65, VC66, VC69, VC70
VC88, VC92
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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.
