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