Emily Williamson was a remarkable woman. Her campaigning against the killing of birds to use their feathers and other body parts to adorn hats in the late 1880s eventually led to the birth of the the Society for the Protection of Birds, later known as the RSPB, and, on 1st July 1921, the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act was passed which banned the import of exotic feathers and saving many species from extinction.
For more information on Emily Williamson and the centenary of the 1921 legislation see here ....
The Guardian - A feather in their cap: RSPB’s victory that saved millions of birds
BBC - RSPB's Emily Williamson: The woman who saved a million birds
To mark the centenary, a statue of Emily Williamson has been commissioned to stand in Didsbury's Fletcher Moss Park near her former home .... see here.
I have been a supporter and member of the RSPB since a very young age and it is now one of the world's largest conservation organisations with over 1.1 million members thanks to the inspiring early campaigning work of Emily Williamson.
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