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