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
associated with
- Thomas Clark
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- J B Phipps
- Edward Charles Wallace
- Joseph Edward Lousley
- Joseph Edward Little
- W C Barton
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Ida Mary Roper
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- William Booth Waterfall
- University Of Birmingham
- Herbert William Pugsley
- James Walter White
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- E Drabble Drabble, Dr E
- Cedric Bucknall
- J Fraser
- William Charles Barton
- Botanical Society of London
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- James Edgar Dandy
- Edward Francis Linton
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Charles Waterfall
- Edward Cleminshaw
- J E Clark
- Charles Bailey
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Arthur Bennett
- Ivor W Evans
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Albert John Crosfield
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- David Thomson Playfair
- Augustin Ley
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- Rowland John Burdon
- G H Bryan
- A L Still
- H Downes
- Margaret Dawber
- Charles Edward Britton
- The South London Botanical Institute
- George Claridge Druce
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- R Mackechnie
- C H Waddell
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Coslett Herbert Waddell
- R W David
- William Richardson Linton
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- William Hunt Painter
- Allan Octavian Hume
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- L D Pitt
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- A Somerville
- John Tatham
- George Hartley Bryan
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- St John Marriott
- Arthur Langford Still
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Hugh M Balfour
- T Clark
- L B Hall
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- Francis Rilstone
- G Goode
- Douglas Montague Heath
- National Museum of Wales
- Arthur Edward Wade
- H Corder
- William West
- John Gilbert Baker
- N Neild
- David Elliston Allen
- A Hosking
- F H Ward
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- E Ellman
- John William Haines
- George Taylor
- Richard Vowell Sherring
- J Comber
- John Durbin Gray
- H C Littlebury
Collection activity by county
1881
1938
VC1, VC2, VC3, VC4
VC5, VC6, VC8, VC9, VC11
VC13, VC14, VC17, VC18, VC19, VC20, VC21
VC28, VC29
VC35, VC41, VC44, 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.
