Thomas Clark
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Mr Thomas Clark (16/12/1793-26/5/1864)
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Biography
Thomas Clark (1793-1864).
A cousin of Francis James Thompson and thus related to Harold Stuart Thompson, and uncle of Isabella Metford.
By 1810 he was a grocer in Bridgwater.
He married Elizabeth Bull in 1833. She died in 1837.
He was a friend of Rev John Coombes Collins of Saint Johns, with whom he used to go botanising.
He wrote "Catalogue of the rarer plants of the turf-moors of Somerset", Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society VII (1858) 64.
His nature diary 1853-1864 is in Blake Museum. As well as notes about the plants he kept a meticulous record of the weather.
Died at his residence, Halesleigh, Wembdon, 1864.
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
associated with
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Botanical Society of London
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- William Mateer
- Benjamin Dornale Wardale
- John Gilbert Baker
- James B Phipps
- Joseph Barnabas French
- James Alexander Brewer
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- George Maw
- John Coombes Collins
- John Drew Salmon
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
- William Tanner
- Peter Gray
- Trinity College, Dublin
- John Tatham
Collection activity by county
1809
1864
VC1
VC3, VC4
VC5, VC6, VC9
VC8, VC11
VC7, VC33, VC34
VC41
VC56
VC90
Examples of handwriting
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| Mr Thomas Clark |
| noted as legit Thos Clark by H S Thompson |
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