Rachel Ford Thompson

Rachel Ford Thompson (31 August 1856 – 9 December 1906) was an English botanist and temperance activist.

She aided Frederick Janson Hanbury with his studies of Hieracium.

Lees' Flora of West Yorkshire[2] and Cardale Babington's Manual of British Botany,[3][4] in which she developed "an entirely fresh account of the genus" Hieracium.

[5] She was also an active member of the Women's Temperance Union.

[3] Her brother Sylvanus P. Thompson was a physics professor and electrical engineer.