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