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