In the
Guide Movement, a Chief Guide is the uniformed head of a national Guiding organisation.
Olave Baden-Powell
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell (''née'' Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting and co-founder o ...
, wife of
Robert Baden Powell
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the worl ...
became the first Chief Guide in 1918.
World Chief Guide
1930 - 1977
Olave Baden-Powell
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell (''née'' Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting and co-founder o ...
(only holder of this post)
UK Chief Guides
1910 - 1916
Agnes Baden-Powell
Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell (16 December 1858 – 2 June 1945) was the younger sister of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and was most noted for her work in establishing the Girl Guide movement as a female counterpart to her older bro ...
1916 - 1930
Olave Baden-Powell
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell (''née'' Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting and co-founder o ...
1930 - 1939 Mrs Percy Birley
1939 - 1942 Mrs St John Atkinson
1942 - 1949 Finola, Lady Summers
1949 - 1956 The
Lady Stratheden and Campbell
1956 - 1966 Anstice Gibbs
1966 - 1975
Ann Parker Bowles
1975 - 1980 Sheila Walker
1980 - 1985 Lady Patience Baden-Powell
1985 - 1990 June Paterson-Brown
1990 - 1995 Jane Garside
1995 - 1996 Margaret Wright
1996 - 2001 Bridget Towle
2001 - 2006 Jenny Leach
2006 - 2011
Liz Burnley Elizabeth Burnley CBE (born 14 March 1959), née Elizabeth Harrison, was the Chief Guide of Girlguiding UK between 2006 and 2011.
Early life
At the University of Nottingham, she completed a BSc iPsychology then an MSc
MSC may refer to:
Com ...
2011 - 2016 Gill Slocombe
2016 - 2017 Valerie Le Vaillant
2018 - Amanda Medler
Austria
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Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf
Gambia
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Rosamond Fowlis
See also
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Chief Scout (The Scout Association)
The Scout Association's Chief Scout is the head of its youth programmes. The role is now merely a nominal and titular ceremonial figurehead. The association's present Chief Scout is the British adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls.
History
Ro ...
References
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Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting