Betty Fripp
British Girl Guide executive
Betty Agnes Fripp OBE (16 March 1904 - 23 December 1975) was a British Girl Guide executive. She received the Silver Fish Award, the movement's highest adult honour, in 1954. She was awarded an OBE for services to Guiding in 1960. She was a competitive swimmer in the 1920s. In 1966 she trained the first all-Girl-Guide team to swim the English Channel.
Personal life
Fripp was the second child of five born to Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (1865–1930), honorary surgeon to King Edward VII, and Lady Margaret Scott, née Haywood (1880–1965). Fripp was an accomplished swimmer, as were her siblings. In the 1920s, she won several large competitions, including the championship and rose bowl at the London Bath Club.
She qualified as a secretary at Hilda Neal's secretarial school, which, at the time, was the "fashionable" thing to do. She was a member of the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, a charitable organisation set up by one of her father's patients, with the title "Tornado".
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