Garth Morrison

{{Short description|British head scout (1943–2013)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

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| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Garth Morrison

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| honorific-suffix = KT CBE DL

| image = Garth Morrison.png

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| office = Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian

| term_start = 30 July 2001

| term_end = 24 May 2013

| predecessor = Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple

| successor = Michael Ingouville Williams

| office1 = The Scout Association's Chief Scout

| term_start1 = 1988

| term_end1 = 1996

| predecessor1 = Michael J. H. Walsh

| successor1 = George Purdy

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Sir William Garth Morrison (8 April 1943 – 24 May 2013) was the Scout Association's Chief Scout from 1988 to 1996{{cite web |url=http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/facts/pdfs/fs295307.pdf |title=Meet the Chiefs |accessdate=8 December 2007 |date=October 2004 |publisher=The Scout Information Centre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031114258/http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/facts/pdfs/fs295307.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://scouts.org.uk/news/2013/05/gone-home-sir-w-garth-morrison/ |title=Gone Home – Sir W Garth Morrison |publisher=Scouts |date=2012-12-21 |accessdate=2013-05-25}}[http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/05/30/459221-east-lothian-mourns-loss-of-muchloved-sir-garth-morrison/ Obituary in East Lothian Courier] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617174338/http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/05/30/459221-east-lothian-mourns-loss-of-muchloved-sir-garth-morrison |date=17 June 2013 }} and a member of the World Scout Committee from 1992 to 2002.

Morrison attended Pangbourne College where he was Chief Cadet (i.e. head boy) and Captain of the English Schools Rugby Football Union (15 group). He continued his education at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth where he was awarded the Queen's Telescope and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts. He spent twelve years in the Royal Navy, as an engineer officer, leaving in 1973 with the rank of Lieutenant. He subsequently took over the running the {{convert|560|acre|km2|adj=on}} family farm in West Fenton, East Lothian, Scotland which provided grains for brewers and distillers in Scotland.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

The Scout Association appointed Morrison as its area commissioner for East Lothian in 1973 and was then appointed as its chief commissioner for Scotland in 1981. He attended the 15th World Scout Jamboree in Canada. The Scout Association awarded him its Silver Wolf Award. After being the Scout Association's deputy leader of its contingent to the 16th World Scout Jamboree in Australia in 1987, the Scout Association appointed him as its Chief Scout in 1988, a position he held for eight years. During his tenure, girls were admitted to the Scout Association's programs and its rules and uniforms were relaxed.[https://www.thetimes.com/article/sir-garth-morrison-r5v62lhfs5h Orbituary in "The Times", 18 June 2013] In 2008, the World Scout Committee awarded Morrison its Bronze Wolf, its only distinction, for exceptional services to world Scouting.{{Cite web | url = https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List | title = List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award | publisher = WOSM | website = scout.org | access-date = 2019-05-01 | archive-date = 29 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053624/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List | url-status = dead }}