Weatherly was born in 1868 in
Ballarat, Victoria. Her mother was Helen (born Chisholm in Scotland) and her clergyman and politician father was
Bolton Stafford Bird. She had some of her education in Tasmania and the rest at the
Methodist Ladies College in Kew. After her education was complete she was employed by the college as a teacher until 1895. She taught and continued to teach even after she enrolled in the
University of Tasmania. She graduated in 1904 and became Senior Mistress at Queen's College in
Ballarat. and Weatherly was the first principal. In 1933 W. E. McPherson gave his father's Invergowrie House to be used by the hostel. By this time she had a co-principal who was Margaret Kirkhope. They led the hostel together until 1938 when Weatherly retired. ==Death and legacy==