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Marc Noble

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Major Sir
Marc Noble
Commonwealth Commissioner of the Scout Association

Major Sir Marc Noble (1927[1]– January 1991) served as the Commonwealth Commissioner of the Scout Association, as well as the Chairman of the World Budget and Treasury Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.

In 1988, Noble was awarded the 197th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[2] He was also a recipient of the Silver World Award.[3]

Noble was the great grandson of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.[4]

He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1985-86. He was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list 1991, but died of cancer a week later.[5]

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  1. ^ "Three earn top awards". Sevenoaks Chronicle. 3 January 1991. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Distinguished Service Awards". Boy Scouts of America. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008.
  4. ^ "Scouting and Rotary". Harrow Observer. 3 May 1977. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Sir Marc Noble". Sevenoaks Chronicle. 10 January 1991. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
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