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{{Short description|First Chief Guide for Britain (1889-1977)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name               = The Lady Baden-Powell
| honorific_suffix   = [[Order of the British Empire|GBE]]
| image              = Olave Baden-Powell.jpg
| caption            = Baden-Powell {{circa}} 1920
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1889|2|22}}
| birth_place        = [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], [[Derbyshire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|1977|6|25|1889|2|22}}
| death_place        = [[Bramley, Surrey]], England, United Kingdom 
| occupation         = Guiding and Scouting
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell]]|1912|1941|end=d.}}
| parents            = {{unbulleted list|
Harold Soames (1855–1918)
Katherine Mary Hill (1851–1932)}}
| children           = {{unbulleted list|
[[Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell|Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron]]
* The Hon. [[Heather Baden-Powell|Heather King]]
* The Hon. [[Betty Clay]]}}
| relatives          = {{nowrap|[[Arthur Granville Soames]] (brother)}}
}}

'''Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE}} ({{nee|Soames}}; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief [[Girl Guide and Girl Scout|Guide]] for Britain and the wife of [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell]] (the founder of [[Scouting]] and co-founder of Girl Guides).

Lady Baden-Powell became Chief Guide for Britain in 1918. Later the same year, at the Swanwick conference for Commissioners in October, she was presented with a gold [[Silver Fish]],<ref name="Kerr"/> one of only two ever made. She was elected World Chief Guide in 1930. As well as making a major contribution to the development of the Guide/Girl Scout movements, she visited 111 countries during her life, attending [[International Scout Jamboree|Jamborees]] and national Guide and Scout associations. In 1932, 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, Derbyshire]], England, Olave Soames was the third child and youngest daughter of a brewery owner and artist Harold Soames (1855–1918), of Gray Rigg, [[Lilliput, Dorset]] (descended from the landed gentry Soames family of Sheffield Park), and his wife Katherine Mary, daughter of George Hill.<ref> Butler, Alfred T., ed., ''Burke's Landed Gentry'' (14th ed.) p. 1632</ref> She was educated by her parents and by several governesses at home. She lived in seventeen homes in the first 23 years of her life.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} Olave became keen on outdoor sports, including tennis, swimming, football, skating, and canoeing, and also played the violin.<ref name="derby ch">Armitage, Jill E. (1994). ''The Derbyshire Childhood of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE''. Storforth Publications. {{ISBN|0952482002}}</ref>

Olave was the sister of [[Arthur Granville Soames]] and therefore the aunt of his children, including [[Christopher Soames]], a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and diplomat who, in 1947, married [[Mary Soames|Mary Churchill]], the youngest child of [[Winston Churchill]].

==Adult life==

===Marriage and children===
[[File:Baden-Powell family (1917).jpg|thumb|220px|Baden-Powell with her husband and their three children in 1917.]]
In January 1912, Olave met [[Second Boer War]] hero and founder of the Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, on an ocean liner (RMSP ''Arcadian'') on the way via the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]] to [[New York City]] to start a lecture tour. She was 23, and he was 55, and they shared a birthday. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation. They married on 30 October 1912 in a private ceremony in [[St. Peter's Church, Parkstone]], her parish church. Apart from the clergy, the only other people present were his brother and sister and [[Robert Kekewich]], a close friend of his, her mother and brother, her brother-in-law, and Sie Bower, a close friend of hers.<ref name="2 Lives">{{cite book |last1=Hillcourt |first1=William |title=Baden-Powell: The Two Lives of a Hero |date=1964 |publisher=Gilwellian Press; Putnam & Sons |location=London; New York |isbn=978-0-9634320-0-1 |edition=First |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/badenpowelltwoli0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up |language=en |others=With Olav, Lady Baden-Powell}}</ref>{{rp|[https://archive.org/details/badenpowelltwoli0000unse/page/334/mode/2up 335]}}

The Scouts and Guides of England each donated a penny to buy the Baden-Powells a wedding gift of a car (not the [[Rolls-Royce Holdings|Rolls-Royce]] called "Jam-Roll"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamroll.org/ |title=B-P Jamroll Limited |website=Jamroll.org |access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> that was presented to them in 1929). Olave's father helped financially with the purchase of [[Pax Hill]] near [[Bentley, Hampshire]], as a family home where she lived with her husband from 29 January 1919 until 25 October 1938.<ref name="2 Lives"/>{{rp|[https://archive.org/details/badenpowelltwoli0000unse/page/356/mode/2up 356], [https://archive.org/details/badenpowelltwoli0000unse/page/412/mode/2up 412]}}

The Baden-Powells had three children—a son and two daughters (who took the courtesy titles of [[Honourable]] in 1929). The son later succeeded his father as the 2nd Lord Baden-Powell upon his father's death in 1941):
* [[Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell|Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell]], later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962), married Carine Boardman (1913–1993), and they had two sons and a daughter; at Peter's death, the elder son Robert succeeded him as 3rd [[Baron Baden-Powell]]; the younger son, [[Michael Baden-Powell, 4th Baron Baden-Powell|Michael]], and the daughter live in Australia;
* [[Heather Baden-Powell]] (1915–1986) married John Hall King (1913–2004),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Wg-Cdr-John-King/6000000017689715206 |title=John Hall King (1913–2004) – Genealogy |website=Geni.com |date=4 November 1913 |access-date=29 March 2016}}{{ugs|date=March 2025}}</ref>{{bsn|date=March 2025}} and they had two sons; and
* [[Betty Clay]] (1917–2004), who, like her mother, met her future husband on board a ship—an older man (by a decade) who shared her birthday. She married, on 24 September 1936, Gervas Charles Robert Clay (1907–2009). They had a daughter and three sons. Betty Clay was also prominent in the [[Girl Guides|Guide Movement]] in [[Northern Rhodesia]] until they retired to England in 1964, when she became involved with the [[Girl Guides]] in England until her death.

In addition, when Olave's sister, Auriol Davidson, née Soames, died in 1919, Olave took her three nieces, Christian (1912–1975), Clare (1913–1980), and Yvonne (1918–2000), into her family and raised them as her children.

===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 [[Worshipful Company of Mercers|Mercers' Company]] (of which he had been Master in 1912) 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 who staffed the hut at the start. She persuaded her mother to look after the children when she was away.<ref name="War Years">{{cite book |others=As told to Mary Drewery|last=Baden-Powell|first=Olave |author-mask=0 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |edition=Girl Guides Association 1983 |location=London |pages=114–121 | title =Window on My Heart: The Autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE |chapter=Chapter X. The War Years 1914—1917 | date =1973 | chapter-url =https://archive.org/details/windowonmyheart0000lady/page/114/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref>

Olave left for France on 7 October 1915, when her second child was five months old. Her regular work in the Mercers' hut included serving [[Hot chocolate|cocoa]] and cigarettes and chatting with those who came in. She also recalled in her autobiography playing her violin and singing at the Christmas Concert. Olave also adopted several stray animals during her time in Val-de-Lievres.<ref name="War Years"/>

During this time, Robert had organised the Scouts to sponsor another recreational hut. Olave and two others started this hut at [[Étaples]] after Christmas 1915. At the end of January, Olave was ordered home due to sickness, ending her three months in France.<ref name="War Years"/>

===Growing involvement in Scouting===
[[File:Ewhurst Place, Ifield, Crawley (IoE Code 363362).jpg|frameless|upright=1.5|right|Ewhurst Place]]
Olave and Robert moved into '''Ewhurst Place''', outside [[Robertsbridge]] in East Sussex, in April 1913. In June of that year, the 1st Ewhurst Scout Troop was inaugurated.<ref name="A New Life"/> Olave was the warranted Scoutmaster of this troop, assisted by the family's housemaid and the gardener.<ref name="A New Life">{{cite book |others=As told to Mary Drewery |last=Baden-Powell |first=Olave |author-mask=0 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|edition=Girl Guides Association 1983 |location=London |pages=104–113 | title =Window on My Heart: The Autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE |chapter=Chapter IX. A New Life, 1912–1914 | date =1973 | chapter-url =https://archive.org/details/windowonmyheart0000lady/page/104/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration }}</ref> Olave accompanied Robert on many of his Scouting tours and to events. She also typed letters for him. In 1915, the Baden-Powells bought a small car, and after Robert taught her to drive, Olave often drove him to engagements.<ref name="War Years"/>

Although most famously connected with the Girl Guides, Olave's first offer to help them in 1914 was turned down. The Girl Guide movement had started after pressure from girls who wanted to become Scouts. It was set up by Robert Baden-Powell and his sister [[Agnes Baden-Powell]]. After the reorganisation of the Girl Guides in 1915, Olave again offered to help, this time successfully, and she started organising Guiding in Sussex. She became the County Commissioner for Sussex in March 1916.<ref name="The Girl Guides">{{cite book |others=As told to Mary Drewery |last=Baden-Powell |first=Olave |author-mask=0 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |edition=Girl Guides Association 1983 |location=London |pages=122–129| title =Window on My Heart: The Autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE |chapter=Chapter XI. The Girl Guides, 1916–1918 | date =1973 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/windowonmyheart0000lady/page/122/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration }}</ref> In October 1916, the first conference for County Commissioners was held, and it was here that the Commissioners unanimously requested that Olave take the role of Chief Commissioner – she was just pregnant with her third child. Shortly before this, she had organised a great number of women in other parts of Britain to take up roles in Guiding.<ref name="Kerr">{{cite book| last =Kerr | first =Rose | title =Story of the Girl Guides 1908–1938 | publisher =Girl Guides Association | year =1976 | location =London}}</ref><ref name="The Girl Guides"/> In 1918, Olave was acclaimed Chief Guide, a title she much preferred to Chief Commissioner.<ref name="Kerr"/>

===Recognition===
====Awards====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Award
!Country/Organisation
!Notes
|-
|1918
|[[Silver Fish Award]]
|[[Girlguiding|Girl Guiding Association]]
|
|-
|1932
|Dame Grand Cross of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ([[Order of the British Empire|GBE]])
|United Kingdom{{r|guider mag}}
|Awarded by [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] in recognition of her volunteer work
|-
|rowspan="2"|1933
|Medal of Merit
|Poland{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|[[Order of the Estonian Red Cross]]
|Estonia{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|1934
|[[Order of the White Rose of Finland]]
|Finland{{r|guider mag}} 
|
|-
|1950
|[[Order of the Phoenix (Greece)|Order of the Silver Phoenix]] 
|Greece{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|1951
|[[National Order of Honour and Merit|Medal of Honour and Merit]]
|Haiti{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|rowspan="2"|1957
|[[Bronze Wolf]]
|[[World Organization of the Scout Movement]]
|Awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting<ref>{{cite web |title=Bronze Wolf Awardees |url=https://www.scout.org/bronze-wolf-awardees |website=World Organization of Scout Movement {{!}} WOSM |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> 
|-
|[[Golden Pheasant Award]]
|Japan
|The highest distinction of the [[Scout Association of Japan]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |title=䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 |trans-title =Recipients of the Japan Federation Pheasant Award |access-date=10 December 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202040356/http://reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2016 |language=ja|date=24 May 2014 |quote=5. ピーター・バーデン{{!}} 1957 {{!}} 英; 6. レディ・ベーデン・パウエル {{!}} 1957 {{!}} 英 |website=Scout Association of Japan}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3"|1959
|[[Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa]]
|Panama{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|[[Order of the Sun of Peru|Order of the Sun]]
|Peru{{r|guider mag}}
|-
|{{interlanguage link|Orden al Mérito de Chile|es}}
|Chile{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|1963
|[[Order of the Sacred Treasure]]
|Japan{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|rowspan="2"|1965
|[[Order of the Oak Crown|Order of the Ducal Crown of Oaks]]
|Luxembourg{{r|guider mag}}
|
|-
|Gold Cross
|San Salvador<ref name="guider mag">{{cite magazine |date=August 1983 |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=The World Chief Guide Awards |magazine=The Guider |location=London, UK |volume=70 |number=8 |publisher=Girl Guides Association |page=13}} </ref> 
|
|}

====Standard====
Olave Baden-Powell was presented with a personal standard by the UK Girl Guides' County Commissioners. Kay-Shuttleworth supervised the making of the standard.<ref name="Kerr"/>
{{bq|The Standard of Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Guide of the World, is blue (azure) from the [[Glossary of vexillology|hoist]] to the [[Glossary of vexillology|fly]]. Nearest the hoist is the gold ([[Or (heraldry)|or]]) trefoil; then come two small hemispheres, showing a coloured map of the world, indicating her post as Chief Guide. These are placed high to the left of the main fly, which is divided throughout its length by two silver ([[argent]]) waves, amongst which are shown three ships with black hulls and white sails, four dolphins and the {{notatypo|Gold Fish}} of the Chief Guide. Then between two red ([[gules]]) motto bands on which are embroidered the Baden-Powell and Girl Guide mottoes in gold letters, there is a section alluding to the outdoor life, showing white tents on a green ([[Vert (heraldry)|vert]]) field. In the extreme fly the Baden-Powell crests are embroidered.}}

===Death of Robert Baden-Powell===
Olave outlived her husband, who was 32 years her senior, by over 35 years. In October 1938, she moved with him to the [[Outspan Hotel]], in [[Nyeri]], Kenya, near her third cousin, Jack Soames, and the notorious [[Happy Valley set]]. Robert Baden-Powell died there on 8 January 1941. [[Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll|Lord Erroll]] was in the funeral procession,<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/svkett/95501750 "Lord Baden-Powell's funeral 1941"; ''Flickr'']</ref> just before his murder on 24 January 1941.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Topps |first1=Tim |title=The Umzindusi Letter |date=2017 |publisher=Troubador Publishing |isbn=978-1-78803-361-9 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyoqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |language=en|url-access=limited}}</ref>

After her husband's death, Olave received thousands of letters of condolence. She was helped to reply to them all by Bertha Hines, the wife of [[David Gordon Hines|David Hines]], who was away fighting the Italian army that had invaded [[Ethiopia]] and [[Somalia]]. Olave often watched Bertha's baby daughter, Penny, while Bertha typed reply letters.<ref>David Hines memoirs: see the (London) ''Daily Telegraph'' obituary 8 April 2000.
* Son of Peter Hines: {{cite news |title=Peter Hines, civil engineer who worked on large-scale projects around the world |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/25/peter-hines-civil-engineer-worked-large-scale-projects-around/ |work=The Telegraph |url-status=live |date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125092658/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/25/peter-hines-civil-engineer-worked-large-scale-projects-around/ |archive-date=25 January 2025 |location=London |department=Telegraph Obituaries}}</ref>

===World War II===
In 1942, she braved [[U-boat]] attacks to return to the UK and, as she had no home to return to, was allocated a [[grace and favour]] apartment in [[Hampton Court Palace]],<ref name="Topps">{{cite book | last=Topps | first=Tim | title=The Umzindusi Letter | publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd | date=2017-03-21 | isbn=978-1-78803-361-9 | page=53}}</ref> in which she lived from 1943 to 1976. Her own home, Pax Hill, had been commandeered and taken over by the Canadian military. Through World War II, she toured the United Kingdom. She was on a visit when a [[V-2 rocket|V2]] missile damaged her Hampton Court apartment in 1944. She went to France and toured throughout Europe as soon as she could after [[D-Day]], as the war ended, to help revive Guiding and Scouting.

===After World War II===
[[File:Lady-Baden-Powell-1960.jpg|thumb|right|Lady Baden-Powell visiting [[Helsinki]] in 1960. To her left, [[Helvi Sipilä]], to her right, [[Jarl Wahlström]].]]
Olave led the Guide Movement worldwide for forty years, travelling all over the globe helping to establish and encourage the Guide Movement in other countries, and bringing membership to over six and a half million worldwide. Olave was present in Washington, DC in 1962 for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts.{{efn|Kathleen Weber was invited as a troop representative at the age of 12 to this event.}}

Having suffered a heart attack in Australia in 1961, she was finally banned from travelling by her doctor at the age of 80 in 1970 when she was diagnosed with [[diabetes]], from which she eventually died.

In 1968, the [[Boy Scouts of America]] (BSA) gave Olave a credit card to defray her travel costs.<ref name="OBPAustralia">{{cite web | title =Honours, gifts: Olave Baden-Powell – Australia 1967 | url =http://www.olavebadenpowell.org/honours/gifts.htm | access-date =22 March 2007 | website =Olave Baden-Powell.org | archive-date =6 September 2006 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060906233707/http://www.olavebadenpowell.org/honours/gifts.htm | url-status =dead }}</ref> When she stopped travelling, the BSA asked her to use the card for 'keeping in touch'.<ref name="OBPAustralia"/> This included paying for over 2000 [[Christmas card]]s she sent to those personally known to her.<ref name="OBPAustralia"/>

Having spent her later years in a grace-and-favour apartment at [[Hampton Court Palace]], Olave died on 25 June 1977 at Birtley House, [[Bramley, Surrey|Bramley]] in [[Surrey]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://olavebadenpowell.worldguiding.net/life/gonehome.pdf |title=The World Chief Guide: Gone Home |website=Olavebadenpowell.worldguiding.net |access-date=29 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175615/http://olavebadenpowell.worldguiding.net/life/gonehome.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> Her ashes were taken to Kenya to be buried in the same grave as her husband's remains.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lady Baden-Powell dies; widow of Scouts' founder|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=June 27, 1977|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61070707/chicago-tribune-6271977/|access-date=October 13, 2020|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref> She was survived by her two daughters, her son having predeceased her.

==Legacy==
[[File:Baden Powell grave1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|[[Baden-Powell grave|Robert and Olave Baden-Powell's grave]] in [[Kenya]]]]
The [[Pax Lodge|Olave Centre]] for Guides was built in north London in Olave's memory. This has the World Bureau and [[Pax Lodge]] on its grounds. Pax Lodge is one of [[World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts|WAGGGS]]' five World Centres.

Scouts and Guides mark 22 February as [[B.-P. Day]] or [[World Thinking Day]], the joint birthdays of Robert and Olave Baden-Powell, to remember and celebrate the work of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide of the World. On that day in 2011, a Blue Plaque was unveiled near the site of the house in Chesterfield where she lived, by Derbyshire County Council. The plaque installation followed an online poll in which she received 18,026 votes out of 25,080 (72%); this compares to 1,231 (5%) for next most popular nominee, [[George Stephenson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsderbyshire.org.uk/find_artist/articles/derbyshire_heritage/blue_plaque_scheme/default.asp |title=Blue Plaque Scheme |website=Arts Derbyshire |date=2011 |access-date=29 March 2016|archive-date =12 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512100802/http://www.artsderbyshire.org.uk/find_artist/articles/derbyshire_heritage/blue_plaque_scheme/default.asp}}{{fv|date=April 2024}}</ref>{{fv|date=April 2024}}

The Olave Baden-Powell Bursary Fund was set up in 1979 from voluntary contributions in memory of Olave B-P. Annually awarded bursaries aim to allow girls in [[Girlguiding|Girlguiding UK]] to further their interests and hobbies and realise their dreams.

As a child, Olave learned the violin; her first violin she called Diana. It was a copy of a Stradivarius made by Messrs. Hill for the Paris Exhibition and many years later it was presented to the Guide Association. It is still available on loan to Guides who are seriously learning to play the violin before they acquire their instrument.<ref name="derby ch"/>

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

==Works==
* 1917: ''"TRAINING GIRLS AS GUIDES: HINTS FOR COMMISSIONERS AND ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE AND TRAINING OF GIRLS"'' - C. ARTHUR PEARSON LTD
* 1973: ''"Window on My Heart: The Autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E."''<ref>{{cite book |others=As told to Mary Drewery |last=Baden-Powell |first=Olave |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton | title =Window on My Heart: The Autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, GBE | date =1973 |url-access=registration |edition=Girl Guides Association 1983 | url =https://archive.org/details/windowonmyheart0000lady/page/n5/mode/2up}} 
* Also: – via Pine Tree Web, with permission [http://pinetreeweb.com/bp-olave-00.htm (Online reproduction ed.)]. Digitised by Lewis P. Orans, April 2004.</ref>

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** {{cite web|url=http://www.spanglefish.com/olavebadenpowell |title=Olave Baden-Powell &#124; Home |website=Spanglefish.com |date=17 December 2013}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110205122247/http://olavebadenpowell.worldguiding.net/ Olave Baden Powell – The World Chief Guide] including a [https://web.archive.org/web/20070404074840/http://www.olavebadenpowell.org/life/time.htm timeline]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070806185758/http://www.pinetreeweb.com/B-P.htm Robert Baden-Powell]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040604062704/http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-pictures8.htm Photographs]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120716231458/http://www.yacc-uk.freeserve.co.uk/macrae/Gilstrap4.htm Olave's ancestry – one line]
* [http://www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/b_body.htm Awards]

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