Marjorie Stopford

Lady Marjorie Stopford (14 August 1904- 27 October 1996) was a Girl Guide leader, Duke of Edinburgh awards advisor, and volunteer for the Guide International Service (GIS), serving in post-civil-war Greece. Family and personal life Lady Marjorie Gertrude Stopford was the youngest child of Sir James Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown and Baron Saltersford, and Gertrude Stopford, Countess of Courtown. She had four siblings and four half-siblings. She spent her childhood in Ireland at the family seat in Courtown House, County Wexford. Stopford met her partner, Florence "Cobbie" Cobb (1910-2003) through Guiding in Hertfordshire in the 1930s. Stopford moved to Bushey, Hertfordshire in 1934. She and Cobb lived together for almost 60 years, moving into Bournemead, a house Stopford inherited, after World War II. She lived there until her death in 1996. Girl Guides Stopford joined the Guiding movement as a Lone Guide in Branch A aged 15 in Ireland. She started her own Company, 1st Gorey, at the age of 21.