Rose Kerr

Rose Margaret Guthrie Kerr (née Gough; 28 April 1882 – 12 December 1944) was a British pioneer of the Guiding movement. She was one of the founders of the Rangers section of Girl Guides and was involved in the formation of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and authored numerous publications on Guiding. She was awarded the Silver Fish. In 1938 she was made an O.B.E. Personal life She was born in Dublin, the daughter of Major Wilfred Arbuthnot Gough and Beatrice Guthrie, daughter of the fourth Feudal Baron of Craigie. When she was 2, her father was killed in action at the Battle of Abu Klea, and her mother remarried Captain Henry Denison to whom she became quite devoted. She studied music in Dresden.