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21 de oct. de 2021 · Famous Didsbury eco-pioneer and RSPB founder Emily Williamson to be honoured with new statue. A new festival dedicated to Emily Williamson at Manchester Art Gallery will examine her eco-campaigning legacy and give people the chance to vote for the final statue design. Georgina Pellant - 21st October 2021. Known as the woman who saved a million ...
8 de nov. de 2021 · Emily Williamson was born in Lancaster but moved to Manchester aged 27 when she married solicitor Robert Wood Williamson (son of a professor of natural history at what would become the University of Manchester). At the start of their married life, Robert and Emily embarked on a project to create a large rockery and garden stuffed with alpine ...
12 de oct. de 2021 · Emily Williamson started the Society for the Protection of Birds in 1889. A festival is to celebrate the legacy of RSPB founder Emily Williamson with a series of talks about conservation. Mrs ...
Emily Williamson was a forward-thinking, kindly and truly inspirational woman – but I see this statue as also celebrating woman-kind and animal-kind as a whole. I’m known for taking on challenging projects and giving a voice to those people and causes that often lie hidden or have been silenced throughout history.
To mark the centenary of the Plumage Act, and in support of efforts by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and others to recognise the achievements of Emily Williamson, one of the founders of what was then the Society for the Protection of Birds, the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) is conferring posthumous membership (MBOU) upon Emily, who was refused membership in the ...
13 de oct. de 2023 · Emily Williamson Hon Secretary until May 1891. 1891 The Didsbury group and ladies attending Eliza Phillips' Fur and Feather meetings at her house in Croydon amalgamate to become the Society for the Protection of Birds. June: Duchess of Portland accepts the office of president and remains so until her death in 1954.
Emily Williamson, née Bateson le 17 avril 1855 à Highfield, Lancaster, au Royaume-Uni, et morte le 12 janvier 1936 à Londres, est une philanthrope anglaise. Elle est notamment cofondatrice de la Royal Society for the Protection of Birds avec Eliza Phillips (en) et de la Gentlewomen's Employment Association à Manchester , toutes deux fondées en 1891.
