Arethusa Flora Gartside Leigh-White (née Hawker) (3 January 1885 – 1959) was the second World Association Director, whose nine years in office ended in 1947. She had the difficult years of

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to contend with, and spent some time in the

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building

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there. The immediate

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in Europe came under her guidance, and she and

J. S. Wilson Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson (1888–1969) was a Scottish scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of General Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the International Bureau, later to become the World Bureau of the World Organiz ...

had to address and adjust policy accordingly.

References

*''Scouting Round the World'', John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 page 203.

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Bantry House, Co. Cork
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting 1885 births 1959 deaths {{Scout-bio-stub

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