Silver Fish Award

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Silver Fish Award
Created1911 (113 years ago)
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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.

Award criteria

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.[1] Ideally candidates should be at least 18 months from retirement and have held an appointment within 6 months of the nomination.[1]

History

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.[2]

Award for Girl Guides

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.[3] 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.[4] This was later reduced to fifteen and, additionally, good all round work was required.[3]

Award for Girl Scouts of USA

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.[5]

Five American women were awarded the Silver Fish:

Award for adults

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.[6] 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.

Recipients

1911–1919

Recipient Year Notes
Nesta G. Ashworth née Maude (1893–1982)[7][8] 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.[9]
Rotha Lintorn-Orman (1895–1935)[7] 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.
Olave Baden-Powell[3] GBE (1889–1977) 1918 Chief Guide. She received a special gold Silver Fish.
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.[10]

1920–1929

Recipient Year Notes
Lady Helen Whitaker (1890–1929)[11] 1920 Hampshire County Commissioner
Anna Suckling (1863–1946)[12] 1921 Warwickshire County Commissioner
Mary Pellatt (1857–1924)[13] 1922 First Chief Commissioner for Girl Guides of Canada (1912–1921)
Ysobel Stewart[14] 1925 Head of training for Scotland
Muriel de Lisle[15] 1925 Warwickshire Girl Guides
Lady Cave[16] 1926 Kingston Division Commissioner
Patricia Richards [17] 1927
Rosa Ward OBE (1893–1984)[18] 1928 Chief Commissioner for Wales. Chair of Guide International Service (1942–1954)

1930–1939

Recipient Year Notes
Olive Kelso King (1885–1958)[19] 1931 Acting State Commissioner, New South Wales. First Australian recipient.
Lady Finola Somers CBE (1896–1981)[20] 1931 State Commissioner, Victorian Girl Guides, Australia. Girl Guides Association Chief Commissioner (1943–1949)
Helen Talbot [21] 1932 Commissioner for Overseas Guiding
Lady Butler (1872–1951)[22] 1932 Chair of All-India Executive Committee
Lady Luke[23] 1933 Bedfordshire's first County Commissioner (1917–1938)
Marguerite de Beaumont (1899–1989)[24] 1934 Cambridgeshire County Commissioner. One of the girls who showed up at Crystal Palace Rally in 1909 wanting to be Scouts.
Mrs Hood[25] 1934 Commissioner for Extensions
Nora G Dillon[26] 1936 Durham County Commissioner. Executive Committee of the Council at Imperial Headquarters (1932–1935)
Mrs Pickering[27] 1936 County Commissioner, Girl Guides in Yorkshire
Rosalind Hamilton Duchess of Abercorn (1869–1958)[28] 1937 Ulster Chief Commissioner
Ruth Callander[29] 1937 Scottish post and extension branches
Gladys Millard (1891–1964)[30] 1937 From the Girl Guide Association of Manitoba, Canada
Maud Carnegie, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945)[31] 1937 County Commissioner, Angus and Aberdeenshire. Scottish Executive Committee member.
Lady Dorothy Arthur[32] 1938 Provincial Commissioner of Bengal
The Honourable Lady Cochrane[33] 1938 Kent County Commissioner
Lilias Dalmahoy[34] 1938 Edinburgh County Commissioner
Miss G Hanbury-Williams MVO[35] 1938 Council of GGA from 1927 to 1961
Mrs Monteith[36] 1938 Assistant County Commissioner, Fife
Allison Cargill (1896–1979)[37][38] 1939 Scotland's first Guide. President of Scottish GGA. VP of GGA.
Elsa Riepert (1890–1961)[39] 1939 Dominion secretary of Girl Guides of Canada (1920–1941)

1940–1949

Recipient Year Notes
Mrs Moore[40] 1942 District Commissioner, Canterbury City Guides. Awarded for gallantry during an air raid
Mrs Alan Morkill MBE[41] 1943
G.G Moody[42] 1944 Deputy Chief Commissioner, Ulster Girl Guides
Miss Sharp[43] 1944 Dundee County Commissioner
Mona Burgin (1903–1985)[44][45] 1945 Active in New Zealand and as a trainer internationally
Isabel Hetherington Kay MBE (1904–1980)[46] 1945 Chair of Welsh Guide Council. Chief Commissioner for Wales.
Lady Eva Julius (1878–1972)[47] 1945 Chief Commissioner, New South Wales, Australia
Verona M. Wallace Williamson (1898–1980 )[44] 1945 Edinburgh County Commissioner
Margaret McIntyre OBE (1886–1948)[48] 1947 Tasmanian State Commissioner (1940–1948)
Lady Lee Steere OBE[49] 1947 Commissioner for Girl Guides in Western Australia
Irene Fairbairn (1899–1974)[50] 1948 Chief Commissioner of Guides Australia, Federal Secretary[51]
Shylie Katherine Rymill (1882–1959)[52] 1948 Australian Girl Guide Commissioner. State Commissioner for South Australia (1938–1950)
Ruth Herrick CBE (1889–1993)[53] 1949 Chief Commissioner for New Zealand Girl Guides (1934–1961)
Mrs Stewart[54] 1949 Scottish Chief Commissioner

1950–1959

Recipient Year Notes
H. S. Gresham[55] 1950 State Commissioner for Queensland, Australia
Olive Hillbrook[56] 1950 Rangers Commissioner, England
Mrs Douglas[57] 1950
Begum G. A. Khan[58] 1951 Chief Commissioner of the Pakistan Girl Guides Association.
Enid, Lady Burnham CBE (1894–1979)[59] 1952 Girl Guide Chief Commissioner for England
J. W. Haughton OBE[60] 1952 Ulster Guides Chief Commissioner
Jessie Kerridge[61] 1952 Commissioner for training, Jamaica
Gwen Hesketh MBE[62] 1953 Guide International Service Commissioner, Tasmania State Commissioner (1956–1962)
Helen McSwiney OBE[63] 1953
Florence Mitchell[64] 1953 Assistant State Commissioner, Victoria, Australia. President, Victoria Guide International Service
Eleanor Manning OBE (1906–1986)[65] 1954 Chief Commissioner of Guides Australia, World Committee of WAGGGS (1955–1962)
Miss Tuckwell [66] 1954 Treasurer of WAGGGS
Mrs Barnham[67] 1957 Post Box Secretary for CHQ and England
E. M. Beveridge[68] 1957 Commonwealth Camp Advisor
Mrs Durrant[69] 1957 Commissioner for Kenya
Beryl Gibson[70] 1957 Commissioner for Training, Cyprus
Senator W. E. GreevesMBE[71] 1957 Ulster Guides Chief Commissioner
Mrs Nesbitt[72] 1957 Commissioner for Canada
Anne Shepherd[73] 1957 County Commissioner, Yorkshire Central
Iona M Taylor[74] 1957 For international service, and untiring work in Hampshire
W Rankine Nesbitt[75] 1957 Chief Commissioner of Canada
Mollie WalkerMBE[76] 1957
Lady Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie (1897–1982)[77] 1958

1960–1969

Recipient Year Notes
E Henrietta Osler[78] 1962 Chief Commissioner of Canada
Hon. Beryl Cozens-Hardy OBE (1911–2011)[44][79] 1963 Chief Commissioner for England (1961–1970). Chair of WAGGGS (1972–1975)
Nancy Eastick MBE (1920–2011)[80] 1963 Guide International Service volunteer, trainer and author
Safiya Abdel-Rahman[81] 1965 Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides, also extremely active in sports for girls in Egypt
Gladys "Jim" Buntine OBE (1901–1992)[65] 1966 Chief Commissioner of Guides Australia (1962–1968)
Sybil Canadine[82] 1967 One of the original founders of the Girl Guide movement
Joyce Price OBE, CMG (1915–2009)[83] 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)[84] 1967 President of the Guides
Dame Anne Parker Bowles DCVRO[85] 1969

1970–1979

Recipient Year Notes
Margaret Turnbull (1907–1986)[86] 1971 Chief Commissioner for New Zealand
W P Gurd[87] 1976 Chief Commissioner for Canada
Vivienne Vaughan-Cox OBE[88] 1978 Chair, Overseas Committee for Girl Guides. Commissioner in Gibraltar and Malta.
Mrs Owen Walker JP[89] 1979 Chief Commissioner of GGA

1980–1989

Recipient Year Notes
Dr Kathryn Benson-Evans[90] 1980 Training Advisor for Wales
Rosemary Cadbury Dickson[91] 1980 Chief Commissioner for Ulster
Dr Helen Laird[92] 1980 Vice Chair of WAGGGS
Edna Banham[93] 1981
Margaret Coleman[94] 1981 Editor of Australian magazine Guiding in Australia
Mrs Owen John[95] 1981
Stella Cunliffe (1917–2002)[96] 1982 County Commissioner for London South West
Aline Fenwick OBE[97] 1985
Mary Hill OAM[98] 1985 WAGGGS Commissioner for training

1990–1999

Betty Clay[citation needed] CBE (1917–2004) 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.

2000 onwards

Recipient Year Notes
Dorothy Naylor[99] 2015 British Guides in Foreign Countries. Special Needs Advisor.
Nicola Grinstead[100] 2016 Chair of WAGGGS Board of Trustees.
Anne Llywelyn-Jones [101] 2016 Girlguiding's Overseas Branches advisor
Angela Milln[102] 2016 Deputy Chief Guide
Leslie Knighton MBE[103] 2018 Chief Commissioner, British Girlguiding Overseas.
Carol Selwyn-Jones[104] 2020 British Girlguiding Overseas, Safeguarding Leader

Date of award unknown

Recipient Year Notes
Lady Clinton (1863–1953)[105] County Commissioner for Devon
Helen Storrow (1864–1944) Donor of Our Chalet
Julia Cobb Crowell (1877–1957) Cleveland's first Girl Scout Commissioner
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan GBE (1879–1967)[44]
Countess Gowrie (1879–1965)[106] Chief Commissioner, New South Wales, Australia
Rose Kerr OBE (1882–1994)[44] One of the founders of the Rangers. Involved in the formation of WAGGGS
Jane Deeter Rippin (1882–1953)[44] National Director of Girl Scouts of the USA (1919–1930).
Anne Hyde Choate (1886–1967) Second president of Girl Scouts USA and goddaughter of its founder Juliette Gordon Low.
Kari Aas (1886–1978) Chief Scout of the Norsk Speiderpikeforbund (1927–1935). Designed World Flag.
Hon. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth MBE (1886–1967)[107] First County Commissioner (1916). First Heraldry Advisor.
A. M. Victoria Rossiter (1887–1977)[108] Stores Commissioner for Dominion Headquarters
Dame Joan Marsham DBE (1888–1972)[44] Chairman of the Guiding Association's executive committee for 10 years from 1938.
Mary Cuningham Chater MBE (1896–1990)[44] Music Advisor to Girl Guides Association (1949–1961)
Hon. Ruth Hubbard (1896–1955)[109] Assistant Division Commissioner, Buckinghamshire
Violet Synge[44] (1896–1981) Chief Commissioner of England
Princess Mary (1897–1965)[3] Honorary President of the Girl Guides Association from 1920 until her death.
Jean Helen St. Clair Campbell, Lady Stratheden and Campbell CBE (1901–1956)[44] Girl Guide Chief Commissioner for the British Commonwealth (1949–1956)
Connie Stableford (1901–1987)[110]
Agnes Maynard OBE[111] Awarded Silver Fish twice
Margaret Crosfield (1902–1988)[112] Deputy Chief Commissioner for India
Kathleen Mabel Davies-Cooke OBE (1903–1994)[113] Chair of Girl Guides Association. Chair of Trefoil Guild. Vice-Patron of Trefoil Guild.
Vera Armstrong MBE (1904–1992)[44] Founded Guide Friendship Fund.
Dame Anstice Gibbs DCVO, CBE (1905–1978)[44] Chief Commissioner and Chair of British Commonwealth Girl Guides Association (1956–1966). Vice-chair of WAGGGS (1957–1960)
Elizabeth Hartley OBE (1906–1996)[44] Vice Chair of WAGGGS 20th World Conference. Leader of World Training team.
Alix Liddell[44] (1907–1981) Editor of WAGGGS' The Council Fire magazine for 30 years
Penelope "Pen" Wood-Hill (1909–1990)[44] Ran Our Chalet.
Lady Chauvel[114] State Commissioner, Victoria, Australia
W. Coxon[115]
Lady Davies[44]
Betty Fripp[44]
Mrs Arthur Lewin[116] Editor of Girl Guide Magazine in South Africa. Awarded Silver Fish pre-1935
Margaret Martin[44]
Alice M. Maynard[44]
Mrs Robotham[117] India Girl Guides

See also

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