[2] Emily married lawyer and politician, Henry Dobson, at the Bothwell Church of England on 4 February 1868.

[3] She became secretary of the Women's Sanitary Association in September 1891 which was founded to fight an outbreak of typhoid in Hobart.

The group petitioned Hobart local council and ran candidates for the municipal election of 1892, alongside the men's Sanitary and General Improvement Association.

[1] In 1892 Mary Jane Brabazon, Countess of Meath and her husband visited New Zealand and Tasmania.

[6] In 1919, the National Council of Women of Tasmania established the Emily Dobson Philanthropic Prize in recognition of her work.