Ruth Clark

Career

Clark authored and illustrated Camp Fire Training for Girls, the first woodcraft book for girls. Published in 1919, it had a foreword by Lady Baden-Powell. She was the leader of The Merrie Campers group of woodcraft girls.

Clark was born in Sunderland.

They had one son, Ivan Gordon Hargrave (1920–1992). She died in Scarborough in 1964.

Achievements

• She was a co-founder of the Kibbo Kift and incorporated her girls into it, but was not involved in the Green Shirt Movement for Social Crown

Membership

Clark was a member of the Camp Fire Girls movement as a girl.