Gone home: Patience, Lady Baden-Powell
Patience, Lady Baden-Powell, granddaughter-in-law of the Founder and wife of the present Lord Baden-Powell, died in the early hours of 18 December aged 74. Patience Baden-Powell undertook a lifetime of service to Girl Guiding, Scouting and many other caring organisations both within the United Kingdom and around the world.
She was Chief Commissioner for UK Girl Guiding in the 1980s and later a Vice-President. With her husband she was much involved with the early days of the Venture Scout Section in the UK and in promoting the sensitive integration of girls into Scouting as well as supporting the unique role of Girl Guiding with young women. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty The Queen in 1986.
Patience grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where she met her husband. She worked tirelessly for the application of Scouting's unchanging fundamental values in modern society not just at a policy level but practically. She worked with families in the deprived East End of London, ran a Brownie Colony and with her husband a Venture Scout Unit in Surrey and took on many of the roles previously undertaken by her grandmother-in-law Olave Lady Baden-Powell on her death. Though suffering from a wasting illness for the past two years she was active in pursuing her interests with young people up to the last few days of her life.
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