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