# Silver Wolf Award (The Scout Association)

The Silver Wolf is the highest award made by The Scout Association "for services of the most exceptional character." It is an unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout. The award consists of a Silver Wolf suspended from a dark green and yellow neck ribbon.

## History

Since its inception by Robert Baden-Powell, the Silver Wolf has remained the "unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout", although "County Commissioners and overseas Chief Scouts may submit recommendations to Scout Headquarters."
During the early years of the development of the Scout Movement throughout the world, it was the practice of the Founder, Lord Baden-Powell, to give the Silver Wolf to Scouters in any country who had done outstandingly valuable work for the Movement. The Silver Wolf was first awarded to King's Scouts or King's Sea Scouts of at least 2 years service and who earned 12 proficiency badges, who performed under exceptional circumstances like saving a life or repeated acts of bravery, endurance, or self-sacrifice. This Silver Wolf remained a Youth award until 1922, when it became an award for Adult volunteers for Services to Scouting.
The award was of course highly valued, but it began to be realized that the Silver Wolf was a British Scout decoration, even though it was given by the Chief Scout of the World. Accordingly, in 1934, the Bronze Wolf Award was created as the only award made by the World Scout Committee.

## Recipients

* Hazel Adair (novelist)
* Demetrios Alexatos
* Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
* Martyn Bain
* Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt
* Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath
* Francis Ronald Gladstone Sanders
* Vera Barclay
* Dudley Barrow
* Richard Bassett
* Daniel Carter Beard
* Edward Wentworth Beatty
* Annie Besant
* Glad Bincham
* Walter von Bonstetten
* John Buchan
* Matthew K Butterfield (2023)
* Carol II of Romania
* Mario di Carpegna
* Gordon Carr
* Bernard Chacksfield
* Jean Corbisier
* John Dawe
* Donald Deacon
* Juan Antonio Dimas
* Haydn Dimmock
* Kay Fancis (2023)
* Rosemary Fletcher MBE
* Robert Gammon
* William Gentry
* Michal Grazynski
* Jacques Guérin-Desjardins
* Gustaf V
* Victor Halward
* Dean Harding
* Charles Hoadley
* Stuart Howells
* Forbes Howie
* Linda Hurford
* Stanley Ince
* Mike Jackson
* Peter James
* John Kingsmell
* Gail Langton
* Maurice William Lee
* André Lefèvre (Scouting)
* Colin H. Livingstone
* Roderick Lloyd
* Ivison Macadam
* William de Bois Maclaren
* Musette Majendie
* Kenneth Paul Marks
* Hubert S. Martin
* Douglas Mawson
* John May
* Roy Morris
* Garth Morrison
* Alan Naylor
* P. B. Nevill
* Louis-Clément Picalausa
* Peter Charles Pilbeam (2005)
* Rudolf Plajner
* Roger Plumb
* Graeme Popay
* Jean Jacques Rambonnet
* Ian Robinson - Cardiff 2021
* John Rous, 4th Earl of Stradbroke
* Henry Way Rymill
* Mortimer L. Schiff
* Jacques Sevin
* Dougie Simmers
* Alec Spalding
* William M Stern (2003)
* Francis George Stevens
* Steve Sudbury
* Muriel Thedham
* Hirohito
* Sano Tsuneha
* George Turner Waldegrave
* W. F. Waters
* James E. West
* John Frederick Wilkinson
* J. S. Wilson
* Simon C. Yew
* Geoff Hall (2024)
* John Bennett MBE
* Scott Park (1st Stirlingshire)
* Ian Windler (2nd Market Drayton)
* Denis Smith (Taunton)
* Stuart William Dyall (Gt.Manchester East)
* Simon Burgess 2023 (1st Prague Scout Group)
* Adam C Prentice (69th Ayrshire, Tarbolton)