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Phyllis Barclay-Smith

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168:, Barclay-Smith worked as a secretary to the business manager of the Bristol Aeroplane Factory and from 1943 to 45 she worked in the Ministry of Labour. Her strengths were in building organizations, ensuring communication, collaboration and participation within and across an international network of scientists, civil servants and politicians. 155:
Barclay-Smith resigned from the RSPB in 1935, partly due to being denied the position of secretary after the retirement of Linda Gardiner, a position for which Robert Preston Donaldson was recruited. Etta Lemon believed that a male secretary was needed for the organization to be viewed more seriously
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and this enraged the secretaries, Barclay-Smith as well as Beatrice Solly. Barclay-Smith then joined the ICBP and worked almost lifelong at the Council, becoming a secretary in 1946 and secretary-general in 1974.
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from 1938. She helped establish the International Wildfowl Research Bureau, and helped in raising awareness on insecticide risks. She also helped in rallying support for the establishment of the
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and joined as an assistant secretary to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in 1924. One of the early founders of the RSPB was her aunt
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Barclay-Smith died on 2 January 1980, five days after going into coma following a severe stroke on Christmas Day, 1979, at the Whittington Hospital,
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Phyllis, as she was known, was the second of three daughters of Edward Barclay-Smith and his wife Ida Mary. Edward was a professor of anatomy at
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At the International Ornithological Congress of 1930 Barclay-Smith spoke on oil pollution and sea birds.
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Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
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She was made MBE in 1958 for her services to conservation, CBE for 1970, and awarded
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She helped in bridging aviculturists and ornithologists, serving as editor of the
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Among Barclay-Smith's works were translations of books from French and German.
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International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950
331:(1980). "Phyllis Barclay-Smith (1902–1980) and the ICBP". 459:"Miss Phyllis Ida Barclay-Smith, CBE, MBOU (1903-1980)" 152:(ICBP) was impressed by her organizational efficiency. 378:(online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 212:
Ridder of the Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark
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Index

Ornithologist
Order of the British Empire
Commander of the British Empire
Order of the Golden Ark
CBE
ornithologist
International Council of Bird Preservation
MBE
CBE
Cambridge University
King's College, London
Margaretta Louisa Lemon
Jean Delacour
International Council for Bird Preservation
World War II
Cousin Island
Seychelles
Islington, London
Ridder of the Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark
International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950
19-20
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
doi
10.1017/S0376892900007980
ISSN
1469-4387
"Smith, (Ida) Phyllis Barclay- (1902–1980), ornithological administrator"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/61361

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