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
- George Hartley Bryan
- Alexander Somerville
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- Arthur Bennett
- Ivor W Evans
- John P Savidge
- L D Pitt
- David Thomson Playfair
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- George Goode
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Harold Downes
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Elliott Fox
- Charles Bailey
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Rowland John Burdon
- Robert MacKechnie
- J E Clark
- R W David
- Margaret Dawber
- McTaggert Cowan
- National Museum of Wales
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- William Richardson Linton
- Cecil Ivry Sandwith
- Stanley Wilson Greene
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- The South London Botanical Institute
- George Claridge Druce
- Charles Edward Britton
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- Newman Neild
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Augustin Ley
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- William Thompson (father of HST)
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- Frederic Henry Ward
- A Hosking
- John Wilton Haines
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- Philip M Smith
- Patrick Martin Hall
- John Edwards Griffith
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- William Hunt Painter
- St John Marriott
- Francis Rilstone
- Henry Francois Devis
- H Corder
- Alfred Rayney Waller
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Joseph Barnabas French
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- J Comber
- George Taylor
- John Wesley Carr
- Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
- Noel Yvri Sandwith
- William Mateer
- Arthur Edward Wade
- E Ellman
- Amy Jane Clark
- H C Littlebury
- Benjamin Dornale Wardale
- David Elliston Allen
- Norman Douglas Simpson
- Henry Horrocks Slater
- John Gilbert Baker
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Thomas Archibald Sprague
- Willis Openshaw Howarth
- John Tatham
- Hugh M Balfour
- Phineas Fox Lee
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- James Alexander Brewer
- Gerald Mortimer Ash
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- John Drew Salmon
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- Edmund Browne Bishop
- Alban Edward Lomax
- Joseph Fry Pickard
- Daniel Oliver
- Henry Peter Reader
- John Coombes Collins
- Frederick Long
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Alfred James Wilmott
- Edmund Gilbert Baker
- W Robinson
- William Bell
- Hughes
- H J Gibbons
- W H Pearsall
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- William Curnow
- M E Fuller
- William Harold Pearsall
- George Maw
- Francis Druce
- Ernest Ellman
- Joseph Sidebotham
- Peter Gray
- G Waterfall
- Matilda Cullen Knowles
- Norman George Hadden
- John Frederick Gustav Chapple
- John Storey
- David Guthrie Catcheside
- Robert Reid Mill
- William Duppa Miller
- J Collins
- William Robert Crotch
- Thomas Moore
- James Alexander Ratter
- Douglas Montague Heath
- Arnold Eliott
- Albert Wilson
- Frederick Raine
- Trinity College, Dublin
Collection activity by county
1881
1939
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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.