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