Rachel Ford Thompson

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Rachel Ford Thompson (31/8/1856-1906)

Contents 1 Biography 2 information included from the herbariaunited database 2.1 Inferred associations 2.1.1 collected with 2.1.2 associated with 2.2 Collection activity by county 3 references and external links

Biography

Born in Yorkshire to a Quaker botanist Silvanus Thompson, Rachel Ford Thompson was both a botanist and an active member of the temperance movement. She collected and assisted Frederick Janson Hanbury with his study on Hieracium. She also contributed to the Flora of Yorkshire by Frederick Arnold Lee (1888). She was a grand daughter of John Tatham.

Her family tree is shown below with botanist represented in herbaria@home highlighted.

information included from the herbariaunited database

Inferred associations

collected with

• F P Thompson

associated with

• F P Thompson
• Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
• William Hadden Beeby
• William Hunt Painter
• Augustin Ley
• R F and F P Thompson
• Charles Cardale Babington
• Henry & James Groves
• Allan Octavian Hume
• Charles Bailey

Collection activity by county

Examples of handwriting

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references and external links