Emily Weddell Acland (née Harper, 1830 – 24 July 1905) was a pioneer settler in New Zealand and a watercolour artist.

[1] Acland was born in 1830, the eldest daughter of 15 children of her parents Henry Harper, who became Bishop of Christchurch (serving from 1869–1890), and Emily Harper (née Wooldridge).

[3] On 17 January 1860, she married politician John Acland at St Michael's Church in Christchurch.

John Acland owned land in the Canterbury high country at Mount Peel, and the couple farmed there together.

[4] Acland became a keen mountaineer and the Emily Falls in Peel Forest are named after her.