Chair District Executive Committee

Cambridge District Scout Archive

This role was initially filled by able administrators from outside Scouting, bringing their own worth and authority to the committee. Since WW2 the role has been filled by longstanding Scouters with a history of leadership inside and outside Scouting.

The records are incomplete, particularly during the two World Wars.

The committee that came together to form the District selected Rev A S Duncan Jones, Dean of Caius College, and W H D Rouse, Headmaster of the Perse, as the alternating chairman.

AS Duncan Jones		1910	Dean of Gonville and Caius
Alderman George Stace		1912 – 1913	Mayor and Alderman
G Turner		1919
E H Church		1920 – 1925
W Varney Webb		1927 – 1936	Chief Constable
vaccant		1939 and 1941
C J Walker		1949 – 1958	SM since 1910
M F Howard	Silver Acorn	1962 – 1963	5th Cambridge
Squires		1964 – 1971
M F Howard	Silver Acorn	1972 – 1976	5th Cambridge
R P Arthur		1976 – 1983	DC

A division of Cambridge District into three separate District occurred in 1983.  Two of these, Cambridge North and Cambridge South reunited in 2001.  Cambridge Crafts Hill remained as an individual District.

Dave Law	Silver Acorn	2001 – 2009	4th Cambridge
Terry Izzard	Silver Wolf	2009 – 2021	DC Camb South
Tom Hartley		2021 – date	28th Cambridge

JWR Archivist Aug 2022