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A post-War 'Civil Division' C.B.E. group of four awarded to Lady Burnham, sometime...
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A post-War ‘Civil Division’ C.B.E. group of four awarded to Lady Burnham, sometime President of the Girl Guides Association
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with additional full section of neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with one ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional Award Bar (The Lady (Marie Enid) Burnham), the latter three all mounted court-style for wear, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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C.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957: The Right Honourable Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, J.P., Chief Commissioner for England, Girl Guides Association.
Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, was born in Buenos Aires on 27 May 1894, the daughter of Hugh Scott Robson, a British-Argentine polo player, and married Colonel (later Major-General) Edward Frederick Lawson, D.S.O., M.C., on 28 January 1920; her husband had served with distinction during the Great War with both the Royal Bucks Hussars and later the Middlesex Yeomanry, and post-War resumed his newspaper career with the Daily Telegraph (which was owned by his uncle, the 2nd Baron Burnham), ultimately becoming the Daily Telegraph’s general manager. He succeeded his father as 4th Baron Burnham on 14 June 1943.
Lady Burnham (as she became in 1943 following her husband’s succession to the peerage) served as President of the Buckinghamshire Red Cross Society from 1936 to 1964, and President of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes form 1947 to 1952. A leading figure in the Girl Guides movement, she served successively as Chief Commissioner for England from 1951 to 1960; as President from 1961 to 1970, and then as Vice-President from 1971 until her death on 29 July 1979. For her services to the Girl Guides movement she was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours’ List.
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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with additional full section of neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with one ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional Award Bar (The Lady (Marie Enid) Burnham), the latter three all mounted court-style for wear, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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C.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957: The Right Honourable Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, J.P., Chief Commissioner for England, Girl Guides Association.
Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, was born in Buenos Aires on 27 May 1894, the daughter of Hugh Scott Robson, a British-Argentine polo player, and married Colonel (later Major-General) Edward Frederick Lawson, D.S.O., M.C., on 28 January 1920; her husband had served with distinction during the Great War with both the Royal Bucks Hussars and later the Middlesex Yeomanry, and post-War resumed his newspaper career with the Daily Telegraph (which was owned by his uncle, the 2nd Baron Burnham), ultimately becoming the Daily Telegraph’s general manager. He succeeded his father as 4th Baron Burnham on 14 June 1943.
Lady Burnham (as she became in 1943 following her husband’s succession to the peerage) served as President of the Buckinghamshire Red Cross Society from 1936 to 1964, and President of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes form 1947 to 1952. A leading figure in the Girl Guides movement, she served successively as Chief Commissioner for England from 1951 to 1960; as President from 1961 to 1970, and then as Vice-President from 1971 until her death on 29 July 1979. For her services to the Girl Guides movement she was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours’ List.
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A post-War ‘Civil Division’ C.B.E. group of four awarded to Lady Burnham, sometime President of the Girl Guides Association
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with additional full section of neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with one ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional Award Bar (The Lady (Marie Enid) Burnham), the latter three all mounted court-style for wear, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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C.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957: The Right Honourable Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, J.P., Chief Commissioner for England, Girl Guides Association.
Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, was born in Buenos Aires on 27 May 1894, the daughter of Hugh Scott Robson, a British-Argentine polo player, and married Colonel (later Major-General) Edward Frederick Lawson, D.S.O., M.C., on 28 January 1920; her husband had served with distinction during the Great War with both the Royal Bucks Hussars and later the Middlesex Yeomanry, and post-War resumed his newspaper career with the Daily Telegraph (which was owned by his uncle, the 2nd Baron Burnham), ultimately becoming the Daily Telegraph’s general manager. He succeeded his father as 4th Baron Burnham on 14 June 1943.
Lady Burnham (as she became in 1943 following her husband’s succession to the peerage) served as President of the Buckinghamshire Red Cross Society from 1936 to 1964, and President of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes form 1947 to 1952. A leading figure in the Girl Guides movement, she served successively as Chief Commissioner for England from 1951 to 1960; as President from 1961 to 1970, and then as Vice-President from 1971 until her death on 29 July 1979. For her services to the Girl Guides movement she was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours’ List.
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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with additional full section of neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with one ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional Award Bar (The Lady (Marie Enid) Burnham), the latter three all mounted court-style for wear, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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C.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957: The Right Honourable Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, J.P., Chief Commissioner for England, Girl Guides Association.
Marie Enid, Baroness Burnham, was born in Buenos Aires on 27 May 1894, the daughter of Hugh Scott Robson, a British-Argentine polo player, and married Colonel (later Major-General) Edward Frederick Lawson, D.S.O., M.C., on 28 January 1920; her husband had served with distinction during the Great War with both the Royal Bucks Hussars and later the Middlesex Yeomanry, and post-War resumed his newspaper career with the Daily Telegraph (which was owned by his uncle, the 2nd Baron Burnham), ultimately becoming the Daily Telegraph’s general manager. He succeeded his father as 4th Baron Burnham on 14 June 1943.
Lady Burnham (as she became in 1943 following her husband’s succession to the peerage) served as President of the Buckinghamshire Red Cross Society from 1936 to 1964, and President of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes form 1947 to 1952. A leading figure in the Girl Guides movement, she served successively as Chief Commissioner for England from 1951 to 1960; as President from 1961 to 1970, and then as Vice-President from 1971 until her death on 29 July 1979. For her services to the Girl Guides movement she was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours’ List.
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