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275:. In the same year she was awarded a red cord distinction diploma. Two years later she received the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour. After leaving Cambridge to move to Shalbourne Manor in 1934, she remained involved in the county's Guiding, as leader of the Cambridge Sea Ranger Crew.
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was published, inspiring groups of boys to organise themselves in Boy Scout patrols, which evolved into Boy Scout troops, consisting of several patrols. In the same year de
Beaumont created the Wolves Patrol, comprising a small group of girls and boys, with herself as patrol leader. They registered
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Beaumont was involved in a concert given by Cambridge and County School Girl Guides. Between 1924 and 1927 she was Cambridge District Captain and Captain of 5th Cambridge Company. In 1927 she took over her sister's role training Guides in Cambridgeshire. In 1928 and 1929 she conducted a
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Beaumont has been called "the far-famed owner of the Shalbourne Stud" and "the doyenne of horse breeders". She owned champion hacks Honeysuckle and Junifer, Arab stallion Shagya Basa, and Champion Highland pony mare Kirsty of Coignafearn. In 1948 she acquired the entire Wentworth stud of Welsh
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Guide choir as part of a pageant depicting the history of Girl Guides. In 1930 she travelled to
Switzerland to train British and Swiss Girl Guides. To celebrate the Guide movement's "Coming Of Age" (21 years) in 1932, she organised the largest camp in Cambridgeshire's history, with 600 Guides at
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Beaumont ran Shalbourne Stud. During the Second World War they welcomed a dozen evacuees from East London's docks. The dining room at the manor was converted into an emergency surgery, equipped at their own expense, to treat
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Beaumont, Guiding was a family affair. Her mother, the Hon. Mrs de Beaumont, was County Commissioner for Cambridgeshire Girl Guides from 1916–1945, her sister Elizabeth was the county's first Secretary and Camp Advisor and her brother Charles was a member of the Scouts.
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Beaumont died in Marlborough and was buried at St Michael and All Angels Church in Shalbourne, Berkshire. Mason having pre-deceased her, de Beaumont left her entire fortune of £3 million, plus Shalbourne Manor, to her equine vet.
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mountain ponies, including "the legendary" Coed Coch Glyndwr, together with many famous mares. She was "perhaps the most successful of modern breeders" of polo ponies, establishing a "dynasty" with the hack champion June XI.
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Marguerite Julia Caroline de Beaumont-Klein was born in Lancashire, the middle child of mother Kathleen Mary O'Hagan and father Louis Charles Leopold Martial de Beaumont-Klein. She was baptised in 1905 at
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565:. Victoria, Canada: Agio Publishing House. pp. 47–49.
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The Wolf That Never Sleeps: A Story of Baden-Powell
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1090:. London, UK: David and Charles. p. 279.
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