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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.
Baron Baden-Powell, of Gilwell in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1929 for Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baronet. [1] He had been created baronet , of Bentley, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 December 1922.
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 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.
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.
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston ...
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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.