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