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
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