Allison Greenlees

Allison Greenlees (born Allison Hope Cargill; 13 August 1896 – 4 August 1979) formed a group of girl scouts before it was possible for her to become Scotland's first ever Girl Guide and a founder member of Girlguiding Scotland. the Cuckoo Patrol, after reading an edition of Scouting for Boys and wanted something like the Boy Scouts to be available to girls. In 1909, the Cuckoo Patrol was adopted into the First Glasgow Scout Group, a year before The Girl Guides Association was established by Agnes Baden-Powell in 1910.

Career

After the start of the First World War, she turned her skills to help set up the Glasgow Battalion of the Women's Emergency Corps.

Legacy Allison Cargill House is a registered charity named for her, and it supplies bunk house accommodation in East Lothian for Brownies She died in Edinburgh on 4 August 1979.