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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.
Baden Powell II was born at Stamford Hill, Hackney in London. [2] His father, Baden Powell I (1767–1841), of Langton and Speldhurst in Kent, was a wine merchant, [2] who served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1831, and as Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1822. [3]
Robert Baden-Powell, the first Inspector- General of the South African Constabulary. The South African Constabulary (SAC) was a paramilitary force set up in 1900 under British Army control to police areas captured from the two independent Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State during the Second Boer War.
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.
Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship is a book on Boy Scout training, published in various editions since 1908. Early editions were written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell with later editions being extensively rewritten by others.
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]
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]
Michael Baden-Powell was born in Sinoia, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), [1] the second son of Peter Baden-Powell, later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and Carine Crause-Boardman. [2] After his father inherited the peerage, the family moved from Rhodesia to Britain in 1947. [ 1 ]