The Springett Lecture 2024

Conservation pioneer and author W. H. Hudson came to London from Argentina in

1874, living here till his death in 1922. The talk describes his life in London as the only

man supporting the women who founded the RSPB, and his struggle to overcome the

odds of poverty and lack of formal education and establish himself as a figure of such

renown that a monument and sanctuary to his memory was unveiled by Prime Minister

Stanley Baldwin in 1925.

Host or Publisher The Heath & Hampstead Society