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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.
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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 is a 1989 biography of the 1st Baron Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal. Tim Jeal's work, researched over five years, was first published by Hutchinson in the UK and Yale University Press . It was reviewed by The New York Times . [ 1 ]
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]
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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.
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.