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unusual facts about Chief Scout


George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

During his tenure as Governor-General of South Africa, he also served as Chief Scout of South Africa.



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Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo

Dogba has impressed a number of other top football people, including Paul Hart, Ian Woan and Paul Montgomery (Chief Scout of Aston Villa), Juande Ramos (former Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid manager), Harry Redknapp.

Ben H. Love

It was Love's leadership during his tenure as Chief Scout Executive in defending the BSA during the Curran Case, the Randall case and later the Dale case that charted the course for the Boy Scouts eventual legal victories, but loss of public support.

Beslidhja Skaut Albania

Scouting quickly returned to Albania in 1989 after communism collapsed in the country, in Sarandë by Dolores and Mihal Dhima, International Commissioner and Chief Scout of Besa Scouts Albania, respectively.

Chief Scout Executive

In the BSA, only three people (Ernest Thompson Seton, James E. West and Elbert K. Fretwell) have held the position of Chief Scout, which is separate and distinct from the position of CSE.

Dick Bayliss

Bayliss had previously served the club as chief scout under his predecessor Harry Storer, Jr..

Don Dorman

Dorman left Birmingham when Ron Saunders arrived as manager and took up the post of chief scout at Aston Villa.

Florian Marciniak

Florian Marciniak (codenames: Jerzy Nowak, Nowak, J.Krzemień, Szary, Flo; born 4 May 1915, Gorzyce, Kościan County – died 20/21 February 1944, Gross-Rosen) was a Polish scoutmaster (harcmistrz), and the first Naczelnik (Chief Scout) of the paramilitary scouting resistance organization, the Szare Szeregi, during the Second World War.

Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby

Colby accepted the position of Chief Scout of the Nyasaland Boy Scouts, and his wife became President of the Girl Guides, giving both these organizations a boost.

Jack McBean

In June 2011, Scotland manager Craig Levein confirmed that he has instructed his chief scout, Michael Oliver, to continue a dialogue with the player and his parents to determine his interest in representing Scotland in future.

Leslie Orme Wilson

From 1932 to 1942, Leslie Wilson was the Chief Scout of the Queensland's Boy Scout Association, resigning in 1942 when he disagreed with the decision to make the Chief Commissioner of the Scouts a paid position.

Pakistan Boy Scouts Association

In Bahawalpur, Wilson was welcomed by Brigadier M.A. Abbasi, Deputy Chief Scout Commissioner who had been at the 1951 World Jamboree in Austria and would later lead the Pakistani contingent at the 1957 Jubilee Jamboree.

The present Chief Scout of Ismaili Scout Groups is H.S.H. Prince Amyn Mohammad Aga Khan.

Robert W. Patten

Later (he said) he scouted with Kit Carson and saved John Fremont from death, for which heroics (he said) Abraham Lincoln made him Chief Scout of the Army, and that he later gave up the position to Buffalo Bill.

Thomas Corbett

Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (1895–1977), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire and Governor of Tasmania