Alix Liddell
{{Short description|British writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Alix Kerr Liddell
| image =File:Alix_Liddell_(1907-1981)_Girl_Guide_leader_and_author.png
| caption = Alix Liddell from a 1970 newspaper
| honorific_suffix = OBE
| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|05|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pimlico, London1911 England Census
| death_date = 6 July 1981England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
| death_place = London, England
| occupation = Girl Guides leader; writer
| spouse = Maurice Liddell (1937–1976; his death)
| parents = Rose Kerr
Mark Kerr
| children = Virginia Sarah Alix Ashton
Judith Rose Jackson}}
Alix Kerr Liddell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (10 May 1907 – 6 July 1981) was a British writer who contributed to the Guiding and Girl Scouting movement both in the United Kingdom and internationally. She wrote several books on the history of Guiding.
Family
Alix Liddell was the daughter of Rose Kerr, a pioneer of Girl Guiding, and Admiral Mark Kerr, British Navy. Her great-grandfather was the 6th Marquess of Lothian. On 28 July 1937 she married Maurice Arthur Liddell, OBE (1905–1976). They had two children.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=2404|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}
Guiding and Scouting
The Kerr family were personal friends of Olave and Robert Baden-Powell and Liddell's mother was heavily involved in Guiding. Liddell began her life in Guiding as a Brownie. She attended the first International Camp in Normandy in 1922. Later she became both a Guider and a Commissioner.
She held numerous positions at national level within UK Guiding including Chairman of Publications Committee, International Commissioner and member of the Education Panel. She attended nine of the ten World Conferences between 1950 and 1975.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
Liddell produced numerous books on Guiding, including several on the history of the movement. She was editor of The Council Fire, a World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) publication, for nearly 30 years. Liddell was awarded the Silver Fish in 1960.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-mrs-alix-liddell/149987531/ |title=Mrs Alix Liddell |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |publication-place=London |page=16 |date=1981-07-09 |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Works
- 1948: International Notebook – Europe
- 1954: Story of the Girl Guides: 1908–1938 (Revised by Liddell)
- 1957: The True Book about Girl Guides
- 1960: The First Fifty Years
- (1965?): The Story of Our Chalet, Olave House, Our Cabaña (with Ida von Herrenschwand and Ethel Rusk Dermady)
- 1970: The Girl Guides, 1910–1970
- (1976?): Briefly it's Guides
- 1976: Story of the Girl Guides: 1938 – 1975
See also
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References
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- {{cite book| last =Liddell | first =Alix | author-link= Alix Liddell | title = Story of the Girl Guides 1938–1975 | publisher =Girl Guides Association | year =1976 | location =London}}
- {{cite journal| last = Proctor | first = Tammy M. | title = A Separate Path: Scouting and Guiding in Interwar South Africa | journal = Comparative Studies in Society and History | issue = 3 | pages = 605–631 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2000 | url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=54961 | access-date = 2006-10-16| volume = 42| doi = 10.1017/S0010417500002954 | s2cid = 146706169 | url-access = subscription }}
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Category:International Scouting leaders
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire