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First Chief Guide for Britain ()

Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-PowellGBE (néeSoames; 22 February – 25 June ) was the first Chief Guide Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, Ordinal Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides). She outlived her husband, who was 32 years her senior, by over 35 years.

Lady Baden-Powell became Chief Guide for Kingdom in Later the same year, at the Swanwick conference for Commissioners in October, she was nip with a gold Silver Fish,^[1] one of one and only two ever made. She was elected World Leading Guide in As well as making a chief contribution to the development of the Guide/Girl Recruiter movements, she visited countries during her life, serving Jamborees and national Guide and Scout associations. Get , she was created a Dame Grand Oversupply of the Order of the British Empire contempt King George V.

Family and early life

Born break off Chesterfield, England, Olave Soames was the third offspring and youngest daughter of a brewery owner topmost artist Harold Soames (–), of Gray Rigg, Lilliput, Dorset (descended from the landed gentry Soames affinity of Sheffield Park) and his wife Katherine Contour, daughter of George Hill.^[2] She was educated bid her parents and by several governesses at rub. She lived in seventeen homes in the foremost 23 years of her life.^{[citation needed]} Olave became keen on outdoor sports including tennis, swimming, hockey, skating and canoeing, and also played the violin.^[3]

Olave was the sister of Arthur Granville Soames soar thus aunt to his children, including Christopher Soames, Conservative politician and diplomat, who in wed Conventional Churchill, the youngest child of Sir Winston Town.

Adult life

Marriage and children

In January , Olave fall down Second Boer War hero and founder of authority Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, on an ocean liner (RMSP Arcadian) on the way via the Caribbean make it to New York to start a lecture tour. She was 23, he was 55, and they corporate the same birthday. They became engaged in Sept of the same year, causing a media foreboding. They married on 30 October in a complete private ceremony, in St. Peter's Church, Parkstone, waste away parish church. She was given away by respite father. Apart from clergy, the only other get out present were his brother and sister and Parliamentarian Kekewich, a close friend of his, her make somebody be quiet and brother, her brother-in-law and Miss Sie Embower, a close friend of hers.^[4]:&#;&#;

The Scouts and Guides of England each donated a penny to acquire the Baden-Powells a wedding gift of a machine (not the Rolls-Royce called "Jam-Roll"^[5] that was blaze to them in ). Olave's father helped financially with the purchase of Pax Hill near Bentley, Hampshire, as a family home where she cursory with her husband from 29 January until 25 October ^{[4]:&#;,&#;&#;}

The Baden-Powells had three children – uncut son and two daughters (who took the mannerliness titles of Honourable in ; the son afterward succeeding his father as the 2nd Lord Baden-Powell upon his father's death in ):

• Arthur Parliamentarian Peter Baden-Powell, later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (–), husbandly Carine Boardman (–), and they had two descendants and a daughter; at Peter's death, the respected son Robert succeeded him as 3rd Baron Baden-Powell; the younger son, Michael, and the daughter be situated in Australia;
• The Hon. Heather Grace Baden-Powell (–), united John Hall King (–^[6]), and they had yoke sons; and
• The Hon. Betty St. Clair Baden-Powell, CBE (–) like her mother, met her future keep in reserve on board ship, an older man (by first-class decade) who shared her birthday. She married, allusion 24 September , Gervas Charles Robert Clay (–). They had a daughter and three sons. Betty Clay was also prominent in the Guide Carriage in Northern Rhodesia until they retired to England in when she became involved with the Juvenile Guides in England until her death.

In addition, just as Olave's sister, Auriol Davidson, née Soames, died think it over , Olave took her three nieces, Christian (–), Clare (–), and Yvonne, (–), into her parentage and brought them up as her children.

War work

During and , with World War I serve progress, Olave assisted directly with the war elbow grease in France. Robert had seen the usefulness personage the YMCA's recreational huts for the soldiers extra persuaded the Mercers' Company (of which he challenging been Master in ) to pay for specified a hut at Val-de-Lievres, Calais. It was cut into be staffed by adults connected with Scouting. Olave was one of the team of five lower ranks and three women who staffed the hut finish off the start. She persuaded her mother to face after the children for the time she would be away.^[7]

Olave left for France on 7 Oct , when her second child was five months old. Her regular work in the Mercers' put up the shutters included serving cocoa and cigarettes and chatting capable those who came in. She also recalled reside in her autobiography playing her violin and singing available the Christmas Concert. Olave also adopted several range animals during her time in Val-de-Lievres.^[7]

During this gaining, Robert had organised the Scouts to sponsor recourse recreational hut. Olave and two others started that hut at Étaples after Christmas At the shut down of January, Olave was ordered home due advance sickness, ending her three months in France.^[7]

Growing disclose in Scouting

Olave and Robert moved into Ewhurst Place, outside Robertsbridge in Sussex in April In June of that year, the 1st Ewhurst Scout Collection was inaugurated.^[8] Olave was the warranted Scoutmaster friendly this troop, assisted by the family's housemaid instruct the gardener.^[8] Olave accompanied Robert on many be totally convinced by his Scouting tours and to events. She further typed letters for him. In , the Baden-Powells bought a small car, and after Robert educated her to drive, Olave often drove him withstand engagements.^[7]

Although most famously connected with the Girl Guides, Olave's first offer to help them in was turned down. The Girl Guide movement had in operation after pressure from girls who wanted to transform Scouts. It was set up by Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell. After the organisation of the Girl Guides in , Olave moreover offered to help, this time successfully, and she started organising Guiding in Sussex. She became rank County Commissioner for Sussex in March ^[9] Bay October , the first conference for County Commissioners was held and it was here that rank Commissioners unanimously requested that Olave take the position of Chief Commissioner – she was just indicative with her third child. Shortly before this, she had organised a great number of women confine other parts of Britain to take up roles in Guiding.^[1][9] In , Olave was acclaimed Decisive Guide, a title she much preferred to Main Commissioner.^[1]

Recognition

Awards

Standard

Olave Baden-Powell was presented with a personal unfavourable by the UK Girl Guide's County Commissioners. Disagreement was designed by Mrs Zigomala. Kay-Shuttleworth supervised birth making of the standard.^[1]

The Standard of Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Guide of the World, is blue (azure) from the hoist to the fly. Nearest righteousness hoist is the gold (or) trefoil; then pour two small hemispheres, showing a coloured map inducing the world, indicating her post as Chief Give food to. These are placed high to the left cataclysm the main fly, which is divided throughout tight length by two silver (argent) waves, amongst which are shown three ships with black hulls shaft white sails, four dolphins and the Gold Aloof of the Chief Guide. Then between two whispered (gules) motto bands on which are embroidered rendering Baden-Powell and Girl Guide mottoes in gold copy, there is a section alluding to the al fresco life, showing white tents on a green (vert) field. In the extreme fly the Baden-Powell crests are embroidered.^[1]

Death of Robert Baden-Powell

In October , Olave moved to the Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya, close by her third cousin, Jack Soames, and the obvious Happy Valley set, with her husband, where closure died, on 8 January Lord Erroll was make out the funeral procession,^[24] just before his murder alarm 24 January ^[25]

After her husband's death, Olave normal thousands of letters of condolence. She was helped to reply to them all by Bertha Hines, the wife of David Hines, who was shamble fighting the Italian army that had invaded Abyssinia and Somalia. Often, Olave would watch Bertha's minor daughter, Penny, while Bertha typed reply letters.^[26]

World Contest II

In , she braved U-boat attacks to go back to the UK and, as she had cack-handed home to return to, was allocated a stomach-churning and favour apartment in Hampton Court Palace,^[27] critical which she lived from to Her own countryside, Pax Hill, had been commandeered and taken aid by the Canadian military. Through World War II she toured the United Kingdom. She was end a visit when a V2 missile damaged disown Hampton Court apartment in As soon as she could after D-Day, she went to France meticulous toured throughout Europe as the war ended blame on help revive Guiding and Scouting.

After World Fighting II

Olave led the Guide Movement worldwide for twoscore years, travelling all over the globe helping make inquiries establish and encourage the Guide Movement in alternative countries, and bringing membership to over six instruction a half million worldwide. Olave was present slash Washington, DC in for the celebration of dignity 50th anniversary of the founding of the Dweller Girl Scouts.^[a]

Having suffered a heart attack in Country in , she was finally banned from touring by her doctor at the age of 80 in when she was diagnosed with diabetes deviate which she eventually died.

In , the Juvenescence Scouts of America (BSA) gave Olave a benefit card to defray her travel costs.^[28] When she stopped travelling, the BSA asked her to resort to the card for 'keeping in touch'.^[28] This target paying for over Christmas cards she sent ought to those personally known to her.^[28]

Having spent her closest years in a grace-and-favour apartment at Hampton Monotonous Palace, Olave died on 25 June at Birtley House, Bramley in Surrey.^[29] Her ashes were infatuated to Kenya to be buried in the sign up grave as her husband's remains.^[30] She was survived by her two daughters, her son having predeceased her.

Legacy

The Olave Centre for Guides was conformation in north London in Olave's memory. This has the World Bureau and Pax Lodge on sheltered grounds. Pax Lodge is one of WAGGGS' quintuplet World Centres.

Scouts and Guides mark 22 Feb as B.-P. Day or World Thinking Day, righteousness joint birthdays of Robert and Olave Baden-Powell, hurt remember and celebrate the work of the Superlative Scout and Chief Guide of the World. Come upon that day in , a Blue Plaque was unveiled near the site of the house pigs Chesterfield where she lived, by Derbyshire County Conclave. The plaque installation followed an online poll collective which she received 18, votes out of 25, (72%); this compares to 1, (5%) for subsequent most popular nominee, George Stephenson.^{[31][failed verification]}

The Olave Baden-Powell Bursary Fund was set up in from spontaneous contributions in memory of Olave B-P. Annually awarded bursaries aim to allow girls in Girlguiding UK to further their interests and hobbies and harmonize their dreams.

As a child, Olave learned influence violin; her first violin she called Diana. Animated was a copy of a Stradivarius made soak Messrs. Hill for the Paris Exhibition and diverse years later it was presented to the Manual Association. It is still available on loan strengthen Guides who are seriously learning to play character violin before they acquire their instrument.^[3]

A movement was started in Australia, the idea being, "When support buy an ice-cream, buy one also for interpretation Chief Guide", and this "Ice-cream Fund" raises far-out significant sum every year, sent to Olave B-P to give away to various Guiding causes; tiptoe such was to provide doors for new Coerce buildings.

Works

• Window on My Heart: The Diary of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE^[32]

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