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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.
At the 15th World Conference it was decided to mark the centenary of the birth of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Guiding, by holding a World Camp with four locations – Doe Lake, Ontario, Canada; Quezon City, Philippines; Lac de Conche, Switzerland; and Windsor Great Park, England, from 19 January to 2 February 1957. [5]
Coat of arms of Baron Baden-Powell Adopted 1929 Coronet Coronet of a baron. Crest 1st: a Lion passant Or in the paw a broken Tilting Spear in bend proper pendent therefrom by a Riband Gules an Escutcheon resting on a Wreath Sable charged with a Pheon Or (Powell); 2nd: out of a Crown Vallary Or a Demi Lion rampant Gules on the head a like Crown charged on the shoulders with a Cross Patée ...
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 Rev. Prof. Baden Powell (mathematician) (1796–1860), mathematician, clergyman and liberal theologian (son of Baden Powell I). By his first marriage father of: Baden Henry Powell (1841–1901), English civil servant. By his third marriage father of: Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), founder of the Scout Movement.
Baden-Powell was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. [6] [7] He was a military aviation pioneer; within a year of joining the army at 22, he was lecturing on military uses of lighter-than-air flight, and in 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight. [8]
The Baden-Powell Outdoor Centre was opened on 14 September 2007 and includes a new camp reception and new washroom facilities. The centre also hosts a small Scouting museum. [ 9 ] [ page needed ] The campsite is compartmentalised, with the memorial stone, shop, flags, and destination signs in one area on the south-west corner of the island.
David Michael Baden-Powell, 4th Baron Baden-Powell (1940−2023) Wendy Dorothy Baden-Powell (born 16 September 1944), unmarried, living in Melbourne , Australia. After he inherited the peerage, he returned to Britain in 1945 for eighteen months and then permanently in 1949 and became a company director [ further explanation needed ] and a ...