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Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (/ ˈ b eɪ d ən ˈ p oʊ əl / BAY-dən POH-əl; [3] 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association.
In 1907, Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army held a Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys (London, 1908), partly based on his earlier military books. The Scout Movement of both Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (renamed to Girl Scouts in some countries) was well established in ...
Baden-Powell was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the elder son of Peter Baden-Powell, later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and Carine Boardman of Johannesburg, and lived in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). [2] After his father inherited the peerage, the family moved from Rhodesia to Britain in 1949, when he was 12.
The fleur-de-lis was used early on by Lord Baden-Powell in the Scouting movement. This symbol was criticized by some early on as Baden-Powell explained in 1933. He explained that some had accused scouting to be a military movement and as proof that the fleur-de-lis was nothing more than a spear-head, the emblem of battle.
Baden-Powell, a 1989 biography of Robert Baden-Powell; Mount Baden-Powell, a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of California named after Robert Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell House, a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South Kensington, London. Baden-Powell International House, a hotel and conference centre in Hong Kong.
At the closure of the event on 9 August 1937, Baden-Powell pointed out the symbol of this jamboree: the Jacob's Staff and took his farewell. [5] I am nearing the end of my life. Most of you are at the beginning, and I want your lives to be happy and successful.
Baden-Powell is the son of David Michael Baden-Powell, 4th Baron Baden-Powell, and Joan Berryman. He succeeded to the barony following the death of his father in 2023. [2] Baden-Powell is also the great-grandson of the founder of World Scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide.
Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, FRSA (known as Peter; 30 October 1913 – 9 December 1962) was the son of Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and Olave St. Clair Soames.