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Olave Baden-Powell (1889-1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. She travelled widely, received many honours and awards, and was involved in the war effort and the Guide/Girl Scout movements.
Learn about the life and achievements of Olave Baden-Powell, the only person to ever hold the title of World Chief Guide. She helped her husband Robert build the Scouting Movement, formed the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, and visited 111 countries.
Biography Timeline. When 23 year-old Olave St Claire Soames married 55 year old Robert Baden-Powell in 1912, she caused an international sensation, and despair to 100,000 Boy Scouts who speculated that the marriage would bring an end to the Chief's Scouting.
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Olave was the younger daughter of brewery owner and artist Harold Soames (himself descended paternally from a landed gentry family, and maternally from a self-made man, Joseph Gilstrap Gelthorpe, who had been Mayor of Newarkin Nottinghamshire). She was educated by her father, her mother Katharine (nee Hill), and a number of governesses at home. Hom...
Marriage and children
In January 1912, Olave met Second Boer War hero and founder of the Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell on an ocean liner (Arcadia) on the way to New York to start one of his Scouting World Tours. She was 23, he 55, and they shared the same birthday. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation. To avoid press intrusion, they married in secret on October 30, 1912. The Scouts and Guides of England each donated a penny to buy the Baden-Powells a wedding gift, a car (note...
War work
During 1915 and 1916, with World War I in progress, Olave assisted directly with the war effort in France. Robert had seen the usefulness of the YMCA's recreational huts for the soldiers and persuaded the Mercers' Company to pay for such a hut at Val-de-Lievres, Calais. It was to be staffed by adults connected with Scouting. Olave was one of the team of five men and three women that staffed the hut at the start.She persuaded her mother to look after the children for time she would be away. Ol...
Growing involvement in Scouting
Olave became a County Commissioner in the Girl Guides in 1916 and became Chief Guide for Britain in 1918. Later the same year she was presented with a gold Silver Fish, one of only two ever made. She was elected World Chief Guide in 1930. In 1932, she was awarded the Dame Grand Cross of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE) by King George V. As well as making a major contribution to the development of the Guide / Girl Scout movements, she visited 111 countries during her life a...
The Olave Centre for Guides was built in north London in Olave's memory. This has the World Bureau and Pax Lodgein its grounds. Pax Lodge is one of WAGGGS' four World Centres. Scouts and Guides mark February 22nd as B.-P. Day or Thinking Day, the joint birthdays of Robert and Olave Baden-Powell, to remember and celebrate the work of the Chief Scout...
Olave Baden Powell — The World Chief Guide including a timelineJul 30, 2007 · ROCK OF MOVEMENT: Lady Olave Baden-Powell unveils the stone memorial to her husband at Evening Hill, Poole, 40 years ago. A ROUGH-HEWN block of Purbeck stone stands on Evening Hill in Poole as a...
A memorial stone to the founders of Scouting and Guiding, Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, in the nave of Westminster Abbey. Learn about their lives, achievements and legacy in this web page.
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Olave was presented with the Silver Wolf award by the Scout Association for her work in caring for their beloved Founder and Chief. She was also awarded the Grand Cross of the British Empire by the King in 1932.
