Rachel Ford Thompson
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Rachel Ford Thompson (31/8/1856-1906)
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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.
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Inferred associations
collected with
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
1881
1899
VC41
VC59
VC60
VC62
VC64
VC69
VC103
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