William Frederick de Bois Maclaren (17 November 1856 – 3 June 1921) was publisher, businessman and Scout Commissioner for Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Posthumously in 1922, his Child's Song-Story Book was published for private circulation by Blackie & Son, Glasgow.

Maclaren also paid another GBP 3,000 to help put the White House into good repair, as the place had been abandoned for the previous 14 years and was virtually derelict.

Baden-Powell then presented Maclaren with the Silver Wolf as a sign of the great debt that the Movement owed to him.

However to reduce the expense, a scarf of dove grey cloth (the colour of humility) with a warm red lining (to signify warmth of feeling) was substituted with only a patch of Maclaren tartan on the point of the scarf and worn by those passing the Gilwell practical course.