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