A Plumage League to campaign against the excessive use of birds' feathers and plumage in ladies fashions was formed by
Reverend Francis Orpen Morris and
Lady Mount Temple in December 1885.
This almost immediately amalgamated to form the
Plumage Section of the
Selborne Society for the Preservation of Birds, Plants and Pleasant Places in the following January.
[
Another plumage league was later formed by Emily Williamson in ]Didsbury
Didsbury is a suburb of Manchester, England, on the north bank of the River Mersey, south of Manchester city centre. The population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 26,788.
Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of ...
. This was organised by Mancunian women unable to join the male British Ornithological Union as the Society for Protection of Birds which subsequently became the RSPB
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a Charitable_organization#United_Kingdom, charitable organisation registered in Charity Commission for England and Wales, England and Wales and in Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, ...
.
References
1885 establishments in England
Bird conservation organizations
Animal welfare organisations based in the United Kingdom
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