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

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information included from the herbariaunited database

Inferred associations

collected with

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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


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.


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