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The town is home to the Fin, Fur and Feather Club, a hunt club and shooting range located along the Mattapoisett River off Crystal Spring Road. Mattapoisett is the southwesternmost town of Plymouth County. It is bordered by Fairhaven to the southwest, Acushnet to the northwest, Rochester to the north, and Marion to the east.
The Fin, Fur and Feather Folk was founded in Croydon by Eliza Phillips, Etta Lemon, Catherine Hall, Hannah Poland and others. [7] The groups gained in popularity and amalgamated in 1891 to form the Society for the Protection of Birds in London. [8] The Society gained its Royal Charter in 1904. [9]
Hall co-founded the group The Fur, Fin and Feather Folk in 1889 alongside Eliza Phillips, Etta Lemon, and Hannah Poland. [2] Hall was likely the near neighbour of Phillips when they both lived in Sutton, London and they are subsequently listed at the same address in Bayswater in the 1891 census.
She founded the Fur, Fin and Feather Folk with Eliza Phillips in Croydon in 1889, which two years later merged with Emily Williamson's Manchester-based Society for the Protection of Birds (SPB), also founded in 1889. The new organisation adopted the SPB title, and the constitution for the merged society was written by Frank Lemon, who became ...
The Society for the Protection of Birds was formed by the 1891 amalgamation [4] of The Plumage League, an anti-plumage group based in Didsbury, Manchester, run by Emily Williamson and the 'Fin, Fur and Feather Folk' [5] whose afternoons meetings were established in 1889 at Phillips's house with Catherine Victoria Hall, Hannah Poland and other ...
First edition cover. Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women's Fight for Change (republished 2021 as Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds) is a 2018 book by Tessa Boase (Aurum: ISBN 978-1781316542) about Etta Lemon and her campaign against the use of feathers in hat-making (millinery) which led to the foundation of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The National Fancy Rat Society (NFRS), founded in 1976, is a UK-based club for rat fanciers that promotes fancy rats exhibitions, as well as the study and breeding of these rats. The society publishes a bi-monthly journal, Pro-Rat-A , and holds many shows throughout the year all over Britain, with membership in the thousands.
Fur & Feather is a Canadian children's television series about animals which aired on CBC Television from 1955 to 1956. It was hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan who headed the Zoology Department at the University of British Columbia .