Robert Baden-Powell
Coniston Ave, Tunbridge Wells TN4 9SY, United Kingdom
Robert studied at Rose Hill School.
Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL, United Kingdom
Robert studied at Charterhouse School.
1910
The British soldier who founded of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, with his wife, Lady Baden-Powell.
1912
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States
Reviewing the Boy Scouts of Washington, D.C. from the portico of the White House: Baden-Powell, President Taft, British ambassador Bryce.
1916
English soldier Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, inspects a parade of Wolf Cubs during World War I.
1907
Robert Baden-Powell sits upon his horse, weapon in hand, as 'The Defender of Mafeking'. He later founded the Scout Association.
1909
Chatham, United Kingdom
Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, at a rally of Boy Scouts.
1896
Baden-Powell
1900
Baden-Powell on a patriotic postcard
1900
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
1900
Lieutenant-General Baden Powell
1900
Crowds outside the home of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell created 1st Baron Baden-Powell, celebrating the relief of Mafeking.
1901
Lord Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement at Charterhouse School Godalming laying the foundation stone of cloisters in memory of Old Carthusiane who fell in South Africa.
1907
Robert Baden-Powell sits upon his horse, weapon in hand, as 'The Defender of Mafeking'. He later founded the Scout Association.
1909
Chatham, United Kingdom
Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, at a rally of Boy Scouts.
1910
The British soldier who founded of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, with his wife, Lady Baden-Powell.
1911
Irish FA, Donegall Ave, Belfast BT12 6LW, United Kingdom
King George V and Robert Baden-Powell, at the Scout Rally in Windsor Park.
1911
Robert Baden-Powell with a party of Scouts at the investiture of the Prince of Wales.
1912
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States
Reviewing the Boy Scouts of Washington, D.C. from the portico of the White House: Baden-Powell, President Taft, British ambassador Bryce.
1914
Robert Baden-Powell
1916
English soldier Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, inspects a parade of Wolf Cubs during World War I.
1920
The British soldier who founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, Robert Baden-Powell.
1922
Lewes, United Kingdom
Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Scout Movement and Chief Scout takes an interest in a display of tumbling at a Grand Rally of Scouts and Guides.
1924
Robert Baden-Powell
1924
Wembley, United Kingdom
The Duke of York (later King George VI) with the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell at a Jamboree.
1925
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, with his wife Olave Baden-Powell.
1928
325 Plashet Grove, East Ham, London E6 1DQ, United Kingdom
British General and founder of the Scout Association Sir Robert Baden-Powell at the Scout Rally at Plashett Park, East Ham.
1929
Robert Baden-Powell at home with his dogs.
1929
Birkenhead, United Kingdom
At the third World Scout Jamboree, Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement and writer of Scouting for Boys walking with the Prince of Wales who was later to become Edward VIII wearing a scouts uniform with other members of the scout movement. The third World Scout Jamboree held at Arrowe Park.
1929
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement tries to blow a "kudu" horn used by African Zulus while opening international scout jamboree at Arrowe Park.
1930
Lord Robert Baden-Powell (right), Chief of the Scouts, wearing scouts uniform as he walks across a hand made wooden bridge.
1930
United Kingdom
Robert Baden-Powell making his speech at the opening of the Memorial Log Cabin at Gilwell Park in Epping Forest.
1930
British soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell.
1932
Lord Robert Baden-Powell at the West Country Jamboree.
1932
London, United Kingdom
The founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden-Powell (riding) at a Scout meeting at Crystal Palace
1935
London, United Kingdom
Lord Robert Baden-Powell in conversation with a young 'silver Fox ' at the Scouts Rally.
1936
The founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden-Powell at the International Jamboree.
1936
Paris, France
Lord Robert Baden-Powell and his wife.
1957
The impressive scene in Middlesbrough Town Hall where Scouts and Guides gather to pay homage at the Robert Baden-Powell centenary service.
Robert Baden-Powell
Coniston Ave, Tunbridge Wells TN4 9SY, United Kingdom
Robert studied at Rose Hill School.
Charterhouse Rd, Godalming GU7 2DL, United Kingdom
Robert studied at Charterhouse School.
Three Scouting pioneers: Robert Baden-Powell (seated), Ernest T. Seton (left), and Dan Beard (right).
Nyeri, Kenya
Baden-Powells' grave at St Peter's Cemetery.
A World War I propaganda poster drawn by Baden-Powell.
65-67 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5JS, United Kingdom
Statue of Baden-Powell by Don Potter in front of Baden-Powell House.
20 Deans Yd, Westminster, London SW1P 3PA, United States
Memorial to Baden-Powell, "Chief Scout of the World", at Westminster Abbey
Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scout Movement.
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell with Captain Gidney and Colonel McCoy with a crowd of Native Americans at Oilwell Park.
Two senior Boy Scouts with a display portrait of the 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement.
Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement (now known as the Scouting Association), inspects a young Guard of Honour at Southampton.
London, United Kingdom
Bemedalled Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell soldier and founder of the Boy Scout movement being filmed by an admirer when he visited the Cine Exhibition, Home and Industrial.
Boy Scout founder and Col. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, defender of Mafeking.
Painting by Frank Harland of Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts.
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell lst Viscount Baden-Powell. English soldier: defender of Mafeking in 2nd Boer War.
Sir Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, with his son Peter, highly pleased with the welcome they received from the Scouts of Cape Town.
The English soldier Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts. On the left is his wife Lady Baden-Powell, holding their infant son.
Carnarvon, United Kingdom
Robert Baden-Powell with a party of Scouts at the investiture of the Prince of Wales.
Boy Scout founder Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (R) talking to Boy Scouts around the campfire.
Olave Baden-Powell, Robert's spouse
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Baden-Powell was born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington in London, on February 22, 1857. He was called Stephe (pronounced "Stevie") by his family, he was named after his godfather, Robert Stephenson, the railway and civil engineer; his third name was his mother's maiden name.
Baden-Powell attended Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells. He was given a scholarship to Charterhouse, a prestigious public school.
In 1884–85 Baden-Powell became noted for his use of observation balloons in warfare in Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and the Sudan. From October 12, 1899, to May 17, 1900, he defended Mafeking, holding off a much larger Boer force until the siege was lifted. After the war he recruited and trained the South African constabulary. On returning to England in 1903, he was appointed inspector general of cavalry, and the next year he established the Cavalry School, Netheravon, Wiltshire. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1907.
Having learned that his military textbook Aids to Scouting (1899) was being used for training boys in woodcraft, Baden-Powell ran a trial camp on Brownsea Island, off Poole, Dorset, in 1907, and he wrote an outline for the proposed Boy Scout movement. Scout troops sprang up all over Britain, and for their use Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys was issued in 1908. He retired from the army in 1910 to devote all his time to the Boy Scouts, and in the same year he and his sister Agnes (1858–1945) founded the Girl Guides (in the United States, Girl Scouts from 1912). His wife, Olave, Lady Baden-Powell (1889–1977), also did much to promote the Girl Guides. In 1916 he organized the Wolf Cubs in Great Britain (Cub Scouts in the United States) for boys under the age of 11. At the first international Boy Scout Jamboree (London, 1920), he was acclaimed chief scout of the world.
A baronet from 1922, Baden-Powell was created a baron in 1929. He spent his last years in Kenya for his health. His autobiography, Lessons of a Lifetime (1933), was followed by Baden-Powell (1942, 2nd ed. 1957), by Ernest Edwin Reynolds, and The Boy-Man: The Life of Lord Baden-Powell (1989), by Tim Jeal.
He was a British army officer who became a national hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the South African War of 1899–1902; he later became famous as founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. He was decorated with numerous orders and medals.
Baden-Powell was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on numerous occasions, including 10 separate nominations in 1928. In 2002, Baden-Powell was named 13th in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. As part of the Scouting 2007 Centenary, Nepal renamed Urkema Peak to Baden-Powell Peak.
Tim Jeal, who wrote the biography Baden-Powell, argued that Baden-Powell's distrust of communism led to his implicit support, through naïveté, of fascism. Baden-Powell admired Benito Mussolini early n the Italian fascist leader's career. In 1939 Baden-Powell noted in his diary: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc. – and ideals which Hitler does not practise himself."
Three of Baden-Powell's many biographers comment on his sexuality; the first two (in 1979 and 1986) focused on his relationship with his close friend Kenneth McLaren. Tim Jeal's later biography discusses the relationship and finds no evidence that this friendship was of an erotic nature. Jeal then examines Baden-Powell's views on women, his appreciation of the male form, his military relationships, and his marriage, concluding that, in his personal opinion, Baden-Powell was a repressed homosexual. Jeal's conclusion is disputed.
In January 1912, Baden-Powell was en route to New York on a Scouting World Tour, on the ocean liner SS Arcadian, when he met Olave Clair Soames. She was 23, while he was 55; they shared the same birthday, 22 February. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation due to Baden-Powell's fame. To avoid press intrusion, they married in private on 30 October 1912, at St Peter's Church in Parkstone.
