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