British princess (1930–2002) and sister of Queen Elizabeth II
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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, CD (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the only sibling of Queen ...
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Lady Helen Whitaker (12 August 1890, Wiltshire, UK – 2 August 1929, Richmond, UK) was County Commissioner for Hampshire Girl Guides from 1917 to 1924 and Commissioner for British Guides Abroad. She was ...
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Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell, GBE (22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was born Olave St Clair Soames in Chesterfield, England. After the death of her husband, she was known as Olave ...
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Muriel de Lisle (b. Dublin, Ireland, 20 January 1892 – d. Leicester, England, 30 March 1974) was instrumental in the early years of Girl Guiding in Warwickshire. She was a recipient of the Silver Fish ...
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Marguerite de Beaumont (b. Liverpool, 13 May 1899, d. Marlborough, 30 July 1989) was a Girl Guide leader, horse breeder, author and poet. She published biographies of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, and was ...
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Dame Anstice Gibbs, DCVO, CBE (b. Hertfordshire, 2 January 1905, d. Hampshire, 7th February 1978) was the Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association in the UK for ten years, and vice-chair of the ...
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Jean Helen St. Clair Campbell, Lady Stratheden and Campbell CBE (?–9 August 1956) served as the Girl Guide Chief Commissioner for the British Commonwealth. She was a recipient of the Silver Fish Award ...
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Catherine Mary Caughey MBE (née Harvey, 8 December 1923 – 12 April 2008) used Colossus computers for codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Bella Sidney Woolf OBE (1877–1960) was an English author, sister of author Leonard Woolf and first married to Robert Heath Lock, and in her second marriage to Hong Kong colonial secretary and colonial ...
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Dame Joan Marsham (1888–1972) was a British philanthropist and chairman of the executive committee of the Girl Guides Association from 1938 to 1948. She was Chairman of the National Women's Auxiliary of ...
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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 ...
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Ann Kindersley (18 September 1899 – 15 October, 1973) was a Girl Guide leader, trainer and writer. She was Commissioner of Girl Guides for France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy.
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The Hon. Ruth Hubbard (b. Westminster, 30 October 1896, d. Addington, 23 August 1955) was a Girl Guide leader and six times Mayoress of Buckingham. She was a recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl G ...
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Lady Marjorie Stopford (14 August 1904- 27 October 1996) was a Girl Guide leader, Duke of Edinburgh awards advisor, and volunteer for the Guide International Service (GIS), serving in post-civil-war Greece ...
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Lady Eva Julius OBE (1878 – 5 July 1972) was an Australian Girl Guide Commissioner and child welfare worker. She was a recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult award.
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Bridget Yelverton Lee Steere, also Lady Lee Steere OBE (24 February 1884, Wellington, NZ - 23 July 1979, Perth, Western Australia) was State Commissioner for Western Australia Girl Guides from 1931 to ...
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The Hon. Beryl Cozens-Hardy OBE (30 November 1911 – 25 September 2011) was the first British woman to hold the position of chair of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).