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Campaigner Emily Williamson on starting it up

The Society for the Protection of Birds was incorporated by royal charter in 1904; Williamson spoke at the group's annual meeting in London that year and recalled the early days of the society, “when it was a very small fledgling, and had no dreams of soaring to the heights which it had reached” (Annual Report, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 14, 1904).

 

—Emily Williamson

 

Quoted from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/54568

 

Emily Williamson (1855–1936), was an English philanthropist. She was co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Birds, with Eliza Phillips in 1891. The society later became the RSPB. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Williamson

 

Portrait of Emily Williamson in about 1890 via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Cf6h

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Uploaded on January 8, 2025
Taken sometime in 1890