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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 for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides).

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She outlived her husband, who was 32 years her senior, by over 35 years.

Lady Baden-Powell became Chief Guide for Britain in Later the same year, at the Swanwick conference for Commissioners in October, she was presented with a gold Silver Fish,^[1] one of only two ever made.

She was elected World Chief Guide in As well as making a major contribution to the development of the Guide/Girl Scout movements, she visited countries during her life, attending Jamborees and national Guide and Scout associations.

In , she was created a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire by King George V.

Family and early life

Born in Chesterfield, England, Olave Soames was th