Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, 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 wrote Scouting for Boys, which with his previous books – such as his 1884 Reconnaissance and Scouting and his 1899 Aids to Scouting for…
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politics · British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941) · scout leader · writer · politician · military officer · scouting · also Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Lord Baden-Powell, Robert Lord Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Lord of Gillwel, Baden-Powell
Born 22 February 1857 · Died 8 January 1941 · Q12665
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2026· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
“education. The author said a diary entry in which Baden-Powell described Hitler”
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2007· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
And it has been purchased by a charity, B–P Jam Roll Ltd
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2002· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell was named 13th in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote
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2001· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The Kenyan government declared Baden-Powell's grave a national monument
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1979· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
And 1986) focused on his relationship with his close friend Kenneth McLaren
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1977· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Three of Baden-Powell's many biographers commented—after his wife had died in 1977—on his sexuality; the first two (in 1979 and 1986) focused on his relationship with his close friend Kenneth McLaren.
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Her ashes were taken to Kenya by her grandson Robert and interred beside her husband
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1941· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Died 1941-01-08.
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
“Pamiętajcie, że chłopiec chce od razu po wstawieniu do drużyny ruszyć na harce: nie zamrażajcie jego zapału wykładami bez końca. Dajcie mu gry i ćwiczenia skautowe, których on pragnie, a szczegółów technicznych nauczycie go pomału praktycznie.”
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1940· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
In Alton, Hants, married John Hall King (1913–2004)
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1939· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
“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 practice himself.”
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Moved to a cottage he had commissioned in Nyeri, Kenya, near Mount Kenya, where he had previously been to recuperate
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1937· 4 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Awarded Wateler Peace Prize (1937).
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Baden-Powell gave his farewell to Scouting and retired from public Scouting life
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Baden-Powell took part in a BBC radio programme in which he recounted his reminiscences of the siege of Mafeking
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell was appointed to the Order of Merit, one of the most exclusive awards in the British honours system, and he was also awarded 28 decorations by foreign states, including the Grand Officer of the Portuguese Or
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1936· 1 entry
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1936).
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1935· 1 entry
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Earned Bronze Wolf Award (1935).
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1933· 3 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Awarded Order of the Sword - Commander Grand Cross (1933).
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
“The whole secret of my getting on, lay with my mother.”
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Said of her, "The whole secret of my getting on, lay with my mother
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1931· 2 entries
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Major Frederick Russell Burnham dedicated Mount Baden-Powell in California to his friend from forty years before
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Baden-Powell received the highest award of the First Austrian Republic (Großes Ehrenzeichen der Republik am Bande) out of the hands of President Wilhelm Miklas
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1929· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
During the 3rd World Scout Jamboree, he received as a present a new 20-horsepower Rolls-Royce car (chassis number GVO-40, registration OU 2938) and an Eccles Caravan
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1927· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1927).
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
At the Swedish National Jamboree, he was awarded by the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund with the "Großes Dankabzeichen des ÖPB
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1922· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1922).
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1920· 2 entries
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And when Nazi use of the swastika became more widespread, the Scouts stopped using it
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Career landmark: Chief Scout (1920–1941).
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1919· 3 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1919).
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Olave and Robert took her three daughters into their family and raised them
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The couple moved to Pax Hill near Bentley, Hampshire, named as such as it was bought on Armistice Day (11 November 1918)
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1915· 1 entry
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Baden-Powell's book "My Adventures as a Spy" was published, lending to false suggestions he had been active as a spy during the war
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1912· 2 entries
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Baden-Powell started a world tour with a voyage to the Caribbean
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Baden-Powell married Olave St Clair Soames
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1910· 4 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Aged 53, Baden-Powell was retired from the Army
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Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, formed The Girl Guides Association
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes started The Girl Guides Association
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell retired from the army and formed The Scout Association
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1909· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
A rally of Scouts was held at The Crystal Palace
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At which Baden-Powell met some of the first Girl Scouts of whom 6,000 had already been registered as Scouts
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1908· 1 entry
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And has sold approximately 150 million copies as the fourth best-selling book of the 20th century
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1907· 1 entry
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Baden-Powell was promoted to Lieutenant-General but put on the inactive list
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1903· 1 entry
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Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organisations, including Charlotte Mason's House of Education
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1899· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
During the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking
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1897· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
At the age of 40, he was brevetted colonel (the youngest colonel in the British Army) and given command of the 5th Dragoon Guards in India
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1896· 2 entries
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The Matabele chief Uwini, who had been promised his life would be spared if he surrendered
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
And served in the Second Matabele War, in the expedition to relieve British South Africa Company personnel under siege in Bulawayo
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1890· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Was brevetted Major as military secretary and senior aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Malta, his uncle General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth
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1884· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Published Reconnaissance and Scouting
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1880· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Was charged with the task of drawing maps of the Battle of Maiwand
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1876· 1 entry
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Baden-Powell joined the 13th Hussars in India with the rank of lieutenant
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1860· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
His mother, to identify her children with her late husband's fame, styled the family name Baden-Powell
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1857· 1 entry
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Born 1857-02-22.
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