Silver Fish Award | |||
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Created | 1911 (113 years ago) | ||
The Silver Fish Award is the highest adult award in Girlguiding. It is awarded for outstanding service to Girlguiding combined with service to world Guiding. The award has changed greatly since it first appeared in 1911, initially being awarded to girls on completion of a number of badges, then via numerous stages to the highest award in the Guiding movement worldwide, and then on to its position as a Girlguiding award. [1]
The Silver Fish is not earned, but given to those who are nominated and are considered worthy of the award. Recipients must be members of Girlguiding, have done outstanding service to Guiding in more than one capacity and made a contribution to world Guiding. [2] Ideally candidates should be at least 18 months from retirement and have held an appointment within 6 months of the nomination. [2]
The award of Silver Fish existed from the beginning of the Guiding movement. The choice of the silver fish was as a result of Lord Baden-Powell visiting Japan, where he learnt that when a son was born, parents would hang a small silver fish on their door, signifying the boy would be able to successfully 'swim upstream' through life's challenges. If a daughter was born, a tiny doll was used. This indicated a girl's sole aim was to raise a family. Lord Baden-Powell decided to make a Guide's highest honour a silver fish, to show that girls are just as capable of battling against the odds as boys. [3]
The award is mentioned in the November 1909 edition of the Boy Scout Headquarters Gazette in "The Scheme for 'Girl Guides'". Here a girl must pass seventeen specified efficiency badges. [4] However, in Pamphlet A: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls, also published in 1909, twenty efficiency badges were needed to obtain the Silver Fish. [5] This was later reduced to fifteen and, additionally, good all round work was required. [4] By 1920 a Silver Fish was awarded for "very special services". [6]
Around the time of the foundation of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912, their handbook listed the Silver Fish as the highest honour in Girl Scouting. However, before anyone could earn it, the Golden Eaglet was introduced. [7]
Five American women were awarded the Silver Fish:
In October 1917, the award changed to being given for outstanding service to the movement. At this time, the design also changed from a whiting with its tail in its mouth worn on a silver chain, to a swimming fish worn on a dark and light blue striped ribbon. Olave Baden-Powell was presented with a gold Silver Fish in 1918, then the only one of its kind. [8] In 1995, her daughter Betty Clay was presented with a gold Silver Fish in the form of a brooch. It continues to be awarded within UK GirlGuiding to this day.
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Nesta G. Ashworth née Maude (1893–1982) [9] [10] | 1911 | Awarded old-style Silver Fish in 1911. Also in 1920. One of the girls who showed up at Crystal Palace Rally in 1909 wanting to be Scouts. Instrumental in the establishment of Lone Guides. [11] |
Rotha Lintorn-Orman (1895–1935) [9] | 1911 | Awarded old-style Silver Fish in 1911. One of the girls who showed up at Crystal Palace Rally in 1909 wanting to be a Scout. |
I New [12] | 1915 | |
Florence Hardy [13] | 1916 | |
Eustace Penburthy [14] | 1916 | |
Olave Baden-Powell [4] GBE (1889–1977) | 1918 | Chief Guide. She received a special gold Silver Fish. |
Hilda Leighton [15] | 1919 | |
Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low (1860–1927) | 1919 | Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. She was buried wearing full uniform and her Silver Fish Award. [16] |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Lady Helen Whitaker (1890–1929) [17] | 1920 | County commissioner, Hampshire |
Margaret Campbell [18] | 1921 | For saving a young boy's life by pulling him out from under a lorry |
Edith Marriott [19] | 1921 | For rescuing someone who was drowning |
Lady Clinton (1863–1953) [20] | 1921 | County commissioner, Devon |
Anna Suckling (1863–1946) [21] | 1921 | County Commissioner, Warwickshire |
Alice Anne Baird (1871-1959) [22] | 1922 | County commissioner, Worcestershire |
Mary Pellatt (1857–1924) [23] | 1922 | First chief commissioner, Girl Guides of Canada (1912–1921) |
Ysobel Stewart [24] | 1925 | Head of training for Scotland |
Muriel de Lisle [25] | 1925 | Warwickshire Girl Guides |
Lady Cave [26] | 1926 | Division commissioner, Kingston |
Patricia Richards [27] | 1927 | |
Rosa Ward OBE (1893–1984) [28] | 1928 | Chief commissioner, Wales Chair, Guide International Service (1942–1954) |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Olive Kelso King (1885–1958) [29] | 1931 | Acting State commissioner, New South Wales. First Australian recipient. |
Mrs Alan Morkill [30] | 1931 | Outstanding work in connection with the 1927 Dominion Guides camp held in Australia |
Lady Finola Somers CBE (1896–1981) [31] | 1931 | State commissioner, Victorian Girl Guides, Australia Girl Guides Association chief commissioner (1943–1949) |
Lady Stubbs [32] | 1932 | Island commissioner, Jamaica |
Helen Talbot [33] | 1932 | Commissioner for overseas Guiding |
Lady Butler (1872–1951) [34] | 1932 | Chair, All-India executive committee |
Lady Blythswood [35] | 1933 | Deputy chief commissioner, Wales |
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan GBE [36] | 1933 | Chair, committee of the council |
Lady Hore-Ruthven [37] | 1933 | State chief commissioner, South Australia |
Miss Rosseter [38] | 1933 | Eagle Owl of Canada |
Marguerite de Beaumont (1899–1989) [39] | 1934 | Cambridgeshire County commissioner. One of the girls who showed up at Crystal Palace Rally in 1909 wanting to be Scouts. |
Lady David [40] | 1934 | Chief State commissioner, New South Wales, Australia |
Mrs Hood [41] | 1933 | Commissioner for extensions |
Lady Luke of Pavenham [42] | 1934 | Bedfordshire's first County commissioner (1917–1938) |
C Warren [43] | 1934 | Divisional commissioner, Woking |
K M Wilson [44] | 1934 | Excellent service to the movement |
Mrs Ralph Carver [45] | 1936 | Commissioner, Egypt |
Nora G Dillon [46] | 1936 | Durham County commissioner Executive committee of the Council at Imperial Headquarters (1932–1935) |
Mrs Pickering [47] | 1936 | County commissioner, Yorkshire |
Rosalind Hamilton Duchess of Abercorn (1869–1958) [48] | 1937 | Ulster chief commissioner |
Ruth Callander [49] | 1937 | Scottish post and extension branches |
Gladys Millard (1891–1964) [50] | 1937 | Girl Guide Association, Manitoba, Canada |
Maud Carnegie, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945) [51] | 1937 | County commissioner, Angus and Aberdeenshire Scottish executive committee member |
Mrs Leigh-White OBE [52] | 1937 | Deputy chief commissioner, Ireland |
Mrs Charles Tufton OBE [53] | 1937 | Executive committee, vice-chair |
Lady Dorothy Arthur [54] | 1938 | Provincial commissioner, Bengal |
The Honourable Lady Cochrane [55] | 1938 | Kent County commissioner |
Lilias Dalmahoy [56] | 1938 | Edinburgh County commissioner |
Miss G Hanbury-Williams MVO [57] | 1938 | Council of Girl Guides Association (1927-1961) |
Mrs Monteith [58] | 1938 | Assistant County commissioner, Fife |
Janet Allan [59] | 1939 | Commissioner for extensions |
Margery Bray (1894-1962) [60] | 1939 | Imperial commissioner, training |
Allison Cargill (1896–1979) [61] [62] | 1939 | Scotland's first Guide President of Scottish GGA, VP of GGA |
Miss Chadwick [63] | 1939 | Chief commissioner, India |
Mrs Fairweather [64] | 1939 | Assistant County commissioner, Kent Assistant commissioner, awards |
Miss Greenless [65] | 1939 | County commissioner, Midlothian |
Lady Haigh [66] | 1939 | Provincial commissioner, United Provinces, India |
A Landau MBE [67] | 1939 | Commissioner for Hebrew Guides, Jerusalem |
Elsa Riepert (1890–1961) [68] | 1939 | Dominion secretary, Canada (1920–1941) |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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R C Drysdale [69] | 1940 | Organising commissioner, Argentina |
Mrs Fisher Rowe [70] | 1940 | Hon. secretary, Overseas Association |
Kelly Lawson [71] | 1940 | Island commissioner, Jamaica |
Mrs Moore [72] | 1942 | District commissioner, Canterbury City Guides. Awarded for gallantry during an air raid |
Miss Packenham Walsh [73] | 1942 | Commissioner, Madras |
Mrs Pinhorn [74] | 1942 | Hon treasurer, All India |
Mrs Elliott Carnegy [75] | 1943 | Chief commissioner, Scotland |
Mrs Alan Morkill MBE [76] | 1943 | |
Lady Monroe [77] | 1943 | Provincial commissioner, Punjab |
M W Kydd [78] | 1944 | Chief commissioner, Canada |
Dame Joan Marsham DBE (1888–1972) [79] | 1944 | Chair of Guiding Association's executive committee for 10 years from 1938 |
G.G Moody (1881-1950) [80] | 1944 | Deputy chief commissioner, Ulster |
F C Sharp [81] | 1944 | Dundee County commissioner |
Mona Burgin (1903–1985) [82] [83] | 1945 | Active in New Zealand and as a trainer internationally |
Lady Cooper [84] | 1945 | Chief commissioner, India |
Dame Anstice Gibbs DCVO, CBE (1905–1978) [82] | 1945 | Chief commissioner and chair of British Commonwealth Girl Guides Association (1956–1966) Vice-chair of WAGGGS (1957–1960) |
Isabel Hetherington Kay MBE (1904–1980) [85] | 1945 | Chair of Welsh Guide Council Chief commissioner, Wales |
Lady Eva Julius (1878–1972) [86] | 1945 | Chief commissioner, New South Wales, Australia |
Verona M. Wallace Williamson (1898–1980 ) [82] | 1945 | Edinburgh County commissioner |
Mrs Geoffrey Gibbs [87] | 1946 | Hertfordshire County commissioner |
Jean Clayton [88] | 1947 | Imperial commissioner, Brownies |
Margaret Crosfield (1902–1988) [89] | 1947 | Deputy chief commissioner, India |
Miss Iles [90] | 1947 | Dominion secretary, New Zealand |
Margaret Martin [91] | 1947 | Commissioner for training |
Margaret McIntyre OBE (1886–1948) [92] | 1947 | Tasmanian state commissioner (1940–1948) |
Lady Lee Steere OBE [93] | 1947 | Commissioner for Girl Guides, Western Australia |
P M Noaks MBE [94] | 1947 | Chief commissioner and training advisor, Southern Rhodesia |
Mrs John Corbett [95] | 1948 | Chief commissioner, Canada |
Irene Fairbairn (1899–1974) [96] | 1948 | Chief Commissioner of Guides Australia, Federal Secretary [97] |
Ruth Herrick CBE (1889–1993) [98] | 1948 | Chief commissioner, New Zealand (1934–1961) |
Shylie Katherine Rymill (1882–1959) [99] | 1948 | Commissioner, Australia State commissioner, South Australia (1938–1950) |
Mrs P M P Thompson [100] | 1948 | Chair, Scottish public relations committee |
A W Pinnick [101] | 1949 | Commissioner, Malaya and Singapore |
Mrs Stewart [102] | 1949 | Scottish chief commissioner (1946-1950) |
E Williams [103] | 1949 | Deputy chief commissioner, New Zealand |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Mrs Douglas of Mains [104] | 1950 | County commissioner, Glasgow |
Lilian Gresham [105] | 1950 | State commissioner, Queensland, Australia |
D E S Wishart [106] | 1950 | Chief commissioner, Canada |
Tirzah Barnes [107] | 1951 | Publications committee |
Mrs Captain [108] | 1951 | Chief commissioner, India |
Mary Cuningham Chater MBE (1896–1990) [109] | 1951 | Music advisor, Girl Guides Association (1949–1961) |
Mrs Dutt [110] | 1951 | Deputy chief commissioner, India |
E D Harrison [111] | 1951 | Brownie advisor |
Olive Hillbrook [112] | 1951 | Rangers commissioner, England |
Mrs Hobson [113] | 1951 | Chief commissioner, Ceylon |
Begum G. A. Khan [114] | 1951 | Chief commissioner, Pakistan Girl Guides Association |
J B Williams [115] | 1951 | Island commissioner, Barbados |
Enid, Lady Burnham CBE (1894–1979) [116] | 1952 | Girl Guide chief commissioner, England |
J. W. Haughton OBE [117] | 1952 | Chief commissioner, Ulster |
Jessie Kerridge [118] | 1952 | Commissioner for training, Jamaica |
D M Powell [119] | 1952 | Executive committee. Chair, education panel |
Gwen Hesketh MBE [120] | 1952 | Guide International Service commissioner Tasmania state commissioner (1956–1962) |
Helen McSwiney OBE [121] | 1953 | |
Florence Mitchell [122] | 1953 | Assistant state commissioner, Victoria, Australia President, Victoria Guide International Service |
G Springall [123] | 1953 | Division commissioner, Western Transvaal |
D Strachan [124] | 1953 | Chief commissioner, South Africa |
Jean Helen St. Clair Campbell, Lady Stratheden and Campbell CBE (1901–1956) [125] | 1953 | Chief commissioner, British Commonwealth (1949–1956) |
Viscountess Colville of Culross [126] | 1954 | Chief commissioner, Scotland |
Betty Fripp [127] | 1954 | Commissioner, British Guides in Foreign Countries |
Muriel Lees [128] | 1954 | Chair, Sussex County camping committee |
Eleanor Manning OBE (1906–1986) [129] | 1954 | Chief commissioner of Guides, Australia World committee of WAGGGS (1955–1962) |
Ruth Tuckwell OBE [130] | 1954 | Treasurer, WAGGGS |
Beryl Barker [131] | 1955 | Commissioner for British Guides, Egypt |
Marjorie Grant [132] | 1955 | Chief commissioner, South Africa |
Elaine E Moran [133] | 1955 | Training advisor, Australia |
Margaret Pilkington MBE (1906–1985) [134] | 1955 | Guide International Service team leader |
K Daniels MBE [135] | 1956 | County commissioner, Essex (1947-1957) |
May Douglas [136] | 1956 | State commissioner, South Australia |
Mrs Banham [137] | 1957 | Post box secretary, CHQ and England |
E. M. Beveridge [138] | 1957 | Commonwealth camp advisor |
Mrs Durrant [139] | 1957 | Commissioner, Kenya |
Beryl Gibson [140] | 1957 | Commissioner for training, Cyprus |
Senator Marion Greeves MBE (1894-1979) [141] | 1957 | Chief commissioner, Ulster |
Mrs Nesbitt [142] | 1957 | Commissioner, Canada |
Anne Shepherd [143] | 1957 | County commissioner, Yorkshire Central |
Iona Taylor [144] | 1957 | For international service, and untiring work in Hampshire |
W Rankine Nesbitt [145] | 1957 | Chief commissioner, Canada |
Mollie Walker MBE [146] | 1957 | Training advisor, England |
E M Beveridge JP [147] | 1958 | Camp advisor |
Gladys Niven [148] | 1958 | Provincial commissioner, Natal, South Africa |
Lady Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie (1897–1982) [149] | 1958 | Captain, 1st Alderbury Company, Wiltshire |
Mrs Wynne [150] | 1958 | Chief commissioner, Southern Rhodesia |
Mrs Guy Coleridge [151] | 1959 | Ranger branch committee, chair |
Sheila Macloed [152] | 1959 | Camp advisor, Victoria, Australia |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Clare Broadhurst [153] | 1960 | Training advisor, Australia |
Lady Davies [154] | 1960 | Commonwealth training advisor |
Lady Harley [155] | 1960 | Deputy chief commissioner, England |
C E Hartley [156] | 1960 | Chief commissioner, Wales |
Alix Liddell (1907–1981) [157] | 1960 | Publications committee, chair |
Bessie Clough [158] | 1961 | Provincial treasurer, Transvaal, South Africa |
Mrs Cowan-Douglas [159] | 1961 | International commissioner, South Africa |
Merle Deer [160] | 1962 | Training advisor, New South Wales, Australia |
R Graeme Orr [161] | 1962 | Assistant state commissioner, Victoria, Australia |
E Henrietta Osler [162] | 1962 | Chief commissioner, Canada |
H A Toft OBE [163] | 1962 | General secretary, Commonwealth headquarters |
Mrs Charlton [164] | 1963 | Queensland, Australia |
Hon. Beryl Cozens-Hardy OBE (1911–2011) [82] [165] | 1963 | Chief Commissioner for England (1961–1970). Chair of WAGGGS (1972–1975) |
Nancy Eastick MBE (1920–2011) [166] | 1963 | Guide International Service volunteer, trainer and author |
Nancy Kemp [167] | 1963 | New South Wales, Australia |
Mrs McKay [168] | 1963 | Victoria, Australia' |
E K Wade [169] | 1963 | |
Dame Lesley Whateley DBE [170] | 1963 | Director, World Bureau |
Miss Wood [171] | 1963 | South Australia |
Safiya Abdel-Rahman [172] | 1965 | Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides, also extremely active in sports for girls in Egypt |
Gladys "Jim" Buntine OBE (1901–1992) [129] | 1966 | Chief Commissioner of Guides Australia (1962–1968) |
Sybil Canadine [173] | 1967 | One of the original founders of the Girl Guide movement |
Penelope "Pen" Wood-Hill (1909–1990) [82] | 1967 | Ran Our Chalet. |
Joyce Price OBE, CMG (1915–2009) [174] | 1967 | Australian Chief Commissioner (1968–1973), Chairman of WAGGGS, Vice President of Olave Baden-Powell Society (1985–1994) |
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden (1930–2002) [175] | 1967 | President of the Guides |
J P Moffett MBE [176] | 1968 | Deputy chief commissioner of the Commonwealth, Commissioner for the Branch Association within the Commonwealth |
Dame Anne Parker Bowles DCVRO [177] | 1969 |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Margaret Turnbull (1907–1986) [178] | 1971 | Chief Commissioner for New Zealand |
W P Gurd [179] | 1976 | Chief Commissioner for Canada |
Sheila M Crosby [180] | 1977 | Executive Director, Girl Guides of Canada |
Vivienne Vaughan-Cox OBE [181] | 1978 | Chair, Overseas Committee for Girl Guides. Commissioner in Gibraltar and Malta. |
Mrs Owen Walker JP [182] | 1979 | Chief Commissioner of GGA |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Dr Kathryn Benson-Evans [183] | 1980 | Training advisor, Wales |
Rosemary Cadbury Dickson [184] | 1980 | Chief commissioner, Ulster |
Dr Helen Laird OBE [185] | 1980 | Vice chair, WAGGGS |
Edna Banham [186] | 1981 | |
Margaret Coleman [187] | 1981 | Editor, Guiding in Australia magazine |
Mrs Owen John [188] | 1981 | |
Stella Cunliffe (1917–2002) [189] | 1982 | County commissioner, London South West |
Aline Fenwick OBE [190] | 1985 | |
Mary Hill OAM [191] | 1985 | Commissioner for training, WAGGGS |
Dr June Paterson-Brown CBE [192] | 1989 | Chief commissioner, Commonwealth |
Margaret Banks [193] | 1990 | Commissioner for Branch Associations |
Mary Willatt [194] | 1990 | Programme and training advisor |
Patricia Lawrence [195] | 1990 | Chair of uniform panel |
Jane Garside [196] | 1994 | Chief commissioner |
Betty Clay CBE (1917–2004) [197] | 1995 | Active in Guiding in both Northern Rhodesia and England. Daughter of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell. Like her mother she received the only other gold Silver Fish. |
Elizabeth Ferrier [198] | 1998 | Chair of programme and training for GGA |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Dorothy Naylor [199] | 2015 | Special needs advisor, British Guides in Foreign Countries |
Nicola Grinstead [200] | 2016 | Chair, WAGGGS board of trustees |
Anne Llywelyn-Jones [201] | 2016 | Advisor, Girlguiding's overseas branches |
Angela Milln [202] | 2016 | Deputy chief guide |
Leslie Knighton MBE [203] | 2018 | Chief commissioner, British Girlguiding Overseas |
Carol Selwyn-Jones [204] | 2020 | Safeguarding leader, British Girlguiding Overseas |
Recipient | Year | Notes |
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Helen Storrow (1864–1944) | Donor of Our Chalet | |
Julia Cobb Crowell (1877–1957) | First Girl Scout commissioner, Cleveland, USA | |
Countess Gowrie (1879–1965) [205] | Chief commissioner, New South Wales, Australia | |
Rose Kerr OBE (1882–1994) [82] | One of the founders of the Rangers Involved in the formation of WAGGGS | |
Jane Deeter Rippin (1882–1953) [82] | National director, Girl Scouts of the USA (1919–1930) | |
Elizabeth Whitehurst (1883–1953) [206] | ||
Anne Hyde Choate (1886–1967) | Second president of Girl Scouts USA | |
Kari Aas (1886–1978) | Chief Scout of Norsk Speiderpikeforbund (1927–1935). Designed World Flag | |
Hon. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth MBE (1886–1967) [207] | First County commissioner (1916) First heraldry advisor | |
A. M. Victoria Rossiter (1887–1977) [208] | Stores commissioner, | |
Hon. Ruth Hubbard (1896–1955) [209] | Assistant Division Commissioner, Buckinghamshire | |
Violet Synge [82] (1896–1981) | Chief commissioner, England | |
Princess Mary (1897–1965) [4] | Honorary president, Girl Guides Association from 1920 until her death | |
Connie Stableford (1901–1987) [210] | ||
Agnes Maynard OBE [211] | Awarded Silver Fish twice | |
Kathleen Mabel Davies-Cooke OBE (1903–1994) [212] | Chair, Girl Guides Association Chair and vice-patron, Trefoil Guild | |
Vera Armstrong MBE (1904–1992) [82] | Founder, Guide Friendship Fund | |
Beryl Henniker-Hughan (1905–1998) [213] | Division commissioner | |
Elizabeth Hartley OBE (1906–1996) [82] | Vice chair, WAGGGS 20th World Conference Leader, World Training team | |
Lady Chauvel [214] | State commissioner, Victoria, Australia | |
W. Coxon [215] | ||
Lady Davies [82] | ||
Betty Fripp [82] | Commissioner, British Guides in Foreign Countries | |
Mrs Arthur Lewin [216] | Editor of Girl Guide Magazine, South Africa (awarded Silver Fish pre-1935) | |
Alice M. Maynard [82] | ||
Mrs Robotham [217] | India Girl Guides | |
Gertrude Pakenham-Walsh [218] | India Girl Guides. She also had a Silver Elephant Award. |
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