Helen Whitaker
Lady Helen Whitaker (12 August 1890, Wiltshire, UK – 2 August 1929, Richmond, UK) was County Commissioner for Hampshire Girl Guides from 1917 to 1924 and Commissioner for British Guides Abroad. She was one of the earliest recipients of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour. Family and personal life Lady Helen Alice Bootle-Wilbraham was the eldest daughter of Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom and Lady Wilma Pleydell-Bouverie (1868–1930). She had two sisters. The family seat was Lathom House in Ormskirk, Lancashire. She married Hugh Sartorius Whitaker at St Margaret's, Westminster in January 1913. They lived in Grove House, Lymington, Hampshire and had one son, Mark, born in 1915. They divorced in 1922. She was subsequently in a relationship with Ann Kindersley, a Girl Guide executive. She married Major-General H. W. Newcome in 1925 and they travelled to India. Upon their return to England, they lived at the Army's Catterick Camp (now Catterick Garrison) in York where she was president of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association. In 1926 she was working as a saleswoman in the decorating shop run by the Earl of Lathom. She was an accomplished horsewoman and a Sunday school teacher. Whitaker