Emily Williamson
Emily Williamson, ne Bateson was an English philanthropist. She was cofounder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds with Eliza Phillips in 1891. The society started as the Plumage League it became the Society for the Protection of Birds, and was granted Royal status in 1904. In 1891 she also established the Gentlewomens Employment Association in Manchester.
Emily Bateson was born at Highfield, Lancaster, in April 1855. She was the daughter of Frederick Septimus Bateson and Eliza Frost. She settled in Didsbury after her marriage onJune 1882 to Robert Wood Williamson, remaining there until her relocation to Brook, Surrey, in 1912. In 1931, she moved to London for the rest of her life. She died at home in Kensington onJanuary 1936, at age 80. She and her husband, who had predeceased her, left no issue. The home in which she lived in Didsbury and from which she established her organisation bears a plaque placed in 1989 to honor her work on the centenary of her organization.
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