Allison Greenlees

[1][2][3] Born in Hillhead, Glasgow, she was the daughter of Mary Hope Walker Grierson and Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet.

[1][2] In 1909, the Cuckoo Patrol was adopted into the First Glasgow Scout Group,[5] a year before The Girl Guides Association was established by Agnes Baden-Powell in 1910.

After reading ‘Scouting for Boys’ she started a patrol with five friends from Laurel Bank School of Glasgow in Autumn of 1908.

Allison Cargill went on to a private school in Malvern and a Guide Company was started in 1911 with a strong Scottish Connection.

When the First World War broke out she used her experience to help raise the Glasgow Battalion of the Women's Voluntary Reserve (WVS).

In 1922 she married Dr James Greenlees[3] who became headmaster of Loretto Public School, Musselburgh, from 1926-1946, living in Inveresk.