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