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( February 2018 ) The Lord Baden - Powell Founder of Scouting Birth name Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell Nickname ( s ) B-P ( 1857 - 02 - 22 ) 22 February 1857 Paddington, London, England 8 January 1941 ( 1941 - 01 - 08 ) ( aged 83 ) Nyeri, British Kenya Buried St Peter 's Cemetery, Nyeri, Kenya ( 0 ° 25 ′ 08 '' S 36 ° 57 ′ 00 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 0.418968 ° S 36.950117 ° E ﻿ / - 0.418968 ; 36.950117 ) Allegiance United Kingdom Service / branch British Army Years of service 1876 -- 1910 Rank Lieutenant - General Commands held Chief of Staff, Second Matabele War ( 1896 -- 97 ) 5th Dragoon Guards ( 1897 ) Inspector General of Cavalry ( 1903 ) Battles / wars Anglo - Ashanti Wars Second Matabele War Siege of Mafeking Second Boer War Awards Ashanti Star ( 1895 ) Matabele Campaign, British South Africa Company Medal ( 1896 ) King 's South Africa Medal ( 1902 ) The Boy Scouts Association Silver Wolf Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award ( 1926 ) Boy Scouts International Committee Bronze Wolf ( 1935 ) Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog, Denmark ( 1921 ) Großes Dankabzeichen des ÖPB ( 1927 ) Großes Ehrenzeichen der Republik am Bande ( 1931 ) Goldene Gemse ( 1931 ) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange - Nassau ( 1932 ) Member of the Order of Merit ( 1937 ) Wateler Peace Prize ( 1937 ) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Spouse ( s ) Olave St Clair Soames Children Arthur Robert Peter Baden - Powell Heather Grace Baden - Powell Betty St Clair Baden - Powell Other work Founder of the international Scouting Movement ; writer ; artist Signature Lieutenant - General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, 1st Baron Baden - Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, DL ( / ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊəl / BAY - dən POH - əl ; 22 February 1857 -- 8 January 1941 ) was a British Army officer, writer, author of Scouting for Boys which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association and founder of the Girl Guides. After having been educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, Baden - Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden - Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys. In 1907, he held a demonstration camp, the Brownsea Island Scout camp, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting. Based on his earlier books, particularly Aids to Scouting, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Sir Arthur Pearson, for boy readership. In 1910 Baden - Powell retired from the army and formed The Boy Scouts Association. The first Scout Rally was held at The Crystal Palace in 1909, at which appeared a number of girls dressed in Scout uniform, who told Baden - Powell that they were the `` Girl Scouts '', following which, in 1910, Baden - Powell and his sister Agnes Baden - Powell formed the Girl Guides from which the Girl Guides Movement grew. In 1912 he married Olave St Clair Soames. He gave guidance to the Scouting and Girl Guiding Movements until retiring in 1937. Baden - Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941. Contents 1 Early life 2 Military career 3 Scouting movement 4 Personal life 4.1 Children and grandchildren 4.2 Personal beliefs 4.3 Sexuality 5 Bibliography 5.1 Military books 5.2 Scouting books 5.3 Compilation of articles and excerpts 6 Drawings, paintings, and sculptures 7 Awards 8 Styles 9 Promotions 10 Honours 10.1 British 10.2 Others 11 Arms 12 See also 13 Notes 14 Related readings : biographies 15 External links Early life Baden - Powell was born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street ( now 11 Stanhope Terrace ), Paddington in London, on 22 February 1857. He was called Stephe ( pronounced `` Stevie '' ) by his family. He was named after his godfather, Robert Stephenson, the railway and civil engineer, and his third name was his mother 's maiden name. Baden - Powell was the son of The Reverend Baden Powell, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University and Church of England priest and his third wife, Henrietta Grace Smyth ( 3 September 1824 -- 13 October 1914 ), eldest daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth. After Powell died in 1860, to identify her children with her late husband 's fame, and to set her own children apart from their half - siblings and cousins, his mother styled the family name Baden - Powell. The name was eventually legally changed by Royal Licence on 30 April 1902. Baden - Powell had four older half - siblings from the second of his father 's two previous marriages, and six full siblings Warington ( 1847 -- 1921 ), George ( 1847 -- 1898 ), the often - ill Augustus ( `` Gus '' ) ( 1849 -- 1863 ), Francis ( `` Frank '' ) ( 1850 -- 1933 ), Agnes ( 1858 -- 1945 ) and Baden ( 1860 -- 1937 ), as well as three others ( Henrietta Smyth, 28 Oct 1851 -- 9 March 1854 ; John Penrose Smyth, 21 December 1852 -- 14 December 1855 ; and Jessie Smyth 25 November 1855 -- 24 July 1856 ), who had all died very young before he was born. Baden - Powell 's father died when he was three. Subsequently, Baden - Powell was raised by his mother, a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed. In 1933 he said of her `` The whole secret of my getting on, lay with my mother. '' Baden - Powell attended Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells. He was given a scholarship to Charterhouse, a prestigious public school. He played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent on yachting or canoeing expeditions with his brothers. His first introduction to Scouting skills was through stalking and cooking game while avoiding teachers in the nearby woods, which were strictly out - of - bounds. Military career In 1876 Baden - Powell joined the 13th Hussars in India with the rank of lieutenant. He enhanced and honed his military scouting skills amidst the Zulu in the early 1880s in the Natal province of South Africa, where his regiment had been posted, and where he was Mentioned in Despatches. During one of his travels, he came across a large string of wooden beads. Although Baden - Powell claimed the beads had been those of the Zulu king Dinizulu, one researcher learned from Baden - Powell 's diary that he had taken beads from a dead woman 's body around that time and indeed the bead form is more similar to dowry beads than to warrior beads. The beads were later incorporated into the Wood Badge training programme he started after he founded the Scouting Movement. Baden - Powell 's skills impressed his superiors and in 1890 he 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. He was posted to Malta for three years, also working as intelligence officer for the Mediterranean for the Director of Military Intelligence. He frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collector, incorporating plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings. In 1884 he published Reconnaissance and Scouting. Baden - Powell in 1896 Baden - Powell returned to Africa in 1896, and served in the Second Matabele War, in the expedition to relieve British South Africa Company personnel under siege in Bulawayo. This was a formative experience for him not only because he commanded reconnaissance missions into enemy territory in the Matopos Hills, but because many of his later Boy Scout ideas took hold here. It was during this campaign that he first met and befriended the American scout Frederick Russell Burnham, who introduced Baden - Powell to stories of the American Old West and woodcraft ( i.e. scoutcraft ), and here that he wore his signature Stetson campaign hat and neckerchief for the first time. Baden - Powell was accused of illegally executing a prisoner of war in 1896, the Matabele chief Uwini, who had been promised his life would be spared if he surrendered. Uwini was sentenced to be shot by firing squad by a military court, a sentence Baden - Powell confirmed. Baden - Powell was cleared by a military court of inquiry but the colonial civil authorities wanted a civil investigation and trial. Baden - Powell later claimed he was `` released without a stain on my character ''. Baden - Powell was also accused of allowing native African warriors under his command to massacre enemy prisoners including women, children and non-combatants. After Rhodesia, Baden - Powell served in the Fourth Ashanti War in Gold Coast. In 1897, 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. A few years later he wrote a small manual, entitled Aids to Scouting, a summary of lectures he had given on the subject of military scouting, much of it a written explanation of the lessons he had learned from Burnham, to help train recruits. Using this and other methods he was able to train them to think independently, use their initiative, and survive in the wilderness. Siege of Mafeking, 10 Shillings ( 1900 ), Boer War currency issued by authority of Colonel Robert Baden - Powell. Baden - Powell returned to South Africa before the Second Boer War and was engaged in further military actions against the Zulus. Although instructed to maintain a mobile mounted force on the frontier with the Boer republics, Baden - Powell amassed stores and a garrison at Mafeking. While engaged in this, he and much of his intended mobile force was at Mafeking when it was surrounded by a Boer army, at times in excess of 8,000 men. Baden - Powell was the garrison commander during the subsequent Siege of Mafeking, which lasted 217 days. Although Baden - Powell could have destroyed his stores and had sufficient forces to break out throughout much of the siege, especially since the Boers lacked adequate artillery to shell the town or its forces, he remained in the town to the point of his intended mounted soldiers eating their horses. The siege of the small town received undue attention from both the Boers and international media because Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British Prime Minister, was besieged in the town. The garrison held out until relieved, in part thanks to cunning deceptions, many devised by Baden - Powell. Fake minefields were planted and his soldiers pretended to avoid non-existent barbed wire while moving between trenches. Baden - Powell did much reconnaissance work himself. In one instance, noting that the Boers had not removed the rail line, Baden - Powell loaded an armoured locomotive with sharpshooters and sent it down the rails into the heart of the Boer encampment and back again in a successful attack. Baden - Powell on a patriotic postcard in 1900 Contrary views of Baden - Powell 's actions during the siege argue that his success in resisting the Boers was secured at the expense of the lives of the native African soldiers and civilians, including members of his own African garrison. Pakenham stated that Baden - Powell drastically reduced the rations to the native garrison. However, in 2001, after subsequent research, Pakenham decidedly retreated from this position. During the siege, the Mafeking Cadet Corps of white boys below fighting age stood guard, carried messages, assisted in hospitals, and so on, freeing grown men to fight. Baden - Powell did not form the Cadet Corps himself, and there is no evidence that he took much notice of them during the Siege. But he was sufficiently impressed with both their courage and the equanimity with which they performed their tasks to use them later as an object lesson in the first chapter of Scouting for Boys. The siege was lifted on 16 May 1900. Baden - Powell was promoted to major - general, and became a national hero. However, the British military commanders were more critical of his performance and even less impressed with his subsequent choices to again allow himself to be besieged. Ultimately, his failure to properly scout the situation and abandonment of the soldiers, mostly Australians and Rhodesians, at the Battle of Elands River led to his being removed from action. Briefly back in the United Kingdom in October 1901, Baden - Powell was invited to visit King Edward VII at Balmoral, the monarch 's Scottish retreat, and personally invested as Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ). The Order of the Bath is the fourth-most senior of the British Orders of Chivalry. Baden - Powell was further sidelined from active command and given the role of organising the South African Constabulary, a colonial police force. He returned to England to take up a post as Inspector - General of Cavalry in 1903. While holding this position, Baden - Powell was instrumental in reforming reconnaissance training in British cavalry, giving the force an important advantage in scouting ability over continental rivals. Also during this appointment, Baden - Powell selected the location of Catterick Garrison to replace Richmond Castle which was then the Headquarters of the Northumbrian Division. In 1907 he was promoted to Lieutenant - General but was left on the inactive list. Eventually he was appointed to the lowly command of the Northumbrian Division of the newly formed Territorial Force. In 1910, after being rebuked for a series of what were regarded as publicity gaffes, one suggesting invasion by Germany, Baden - Powell retired from the Army. Baden - Powell later claimed he was advised by King Edward VII that he could better serve his country by promoting Scouting. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, at the age of fifty - seven, Baden - Powell put himself at the disposal of the War Office. No command was given to him. It has been claimed that Lord Kitchener said : `` he could lay his hand on several competent divisional generals but could find no one who could carry on the invaluable work of the Boy Scouts ''. It was rumoured that Baden - Powell was engaged in spying and Baden - Powell claimed that intelligence officers spread this myth. Scouting Movement Pronunciation of Baden - Powell / ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊ. əl / Man, Nation, Maiden Please call it Baden. Further, for Powell Rhyme it with Noel -- Verse by B-P On his return from Africa in 1903, 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. Following his involvement in the Boys ' Brigade as a Brigade Vice-President and Officer in charge of its scouting section, with encouragement from his friend, William Alexander Smith, Baden - Powell decided to re-write Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership. In August 1907 he held a camp on Brownsea Island to test out his ideas. About twenty boys attended : eight from local Boys ' Brigade companies, and about twelve public school boys, mostly sons of his friends. Baden - Powell was also influenced by Ernest Thompson Seton, who founded the Woodcraft Indians. Seton gave Baden - Powell a copy of his book The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians and they met in 1906. The first book on the Scout Movement, Baden - Powell 's Scouting for Boys was published in six instalments in 1908, and has sold approximately 150 million copies as the fourth best - selling book of the 20th century. Reviewing the Boy Scouts of Washington, D.C. from the portico of the White House : Baden - Powell, President Taft, British ambassador Bryce ( 1912 ) Boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout troops and the Scouting Movement had inadvertently started, first as a national, and soon an international phenomenon. A rally of Scouts was held at Crystal Palace in London in 1909, at which Baden - Powell met some of the first Girl Scouts. The Girl Guides were subsequently formed in 1910 under the auspices of Baden - Powell 's sister, Agnes Baden - Powell. Baden - Powell 's friend Juliette Gordon Low was encouraged by him to found the Girl Scouts of the USA. In 1920, the 1st World Scout Jamboree took place in Olympia in West Kensington, and Baden - Powell was acclaimed Chief Scout of the World. Baden - Powell was created a Baronet in 1921 and Baron Baden - Powell, of Gilwell, in the County of Essex, on 17 September 1929, Gilwell Park being the International Scout Leader training centre. After receiving this honour, Baden - Powell mostly styled himself `` Baden - Powell of Gilwell ''. Three Scouting pioneers : Robert Baden - Powell ( seated ), Ernest T. Seton ( left ), and Dan Beard ( right ) In 1929, 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. This combination well served the Baden - Powells in their further travels around Europe. The caravan was nicknamed Eccles and is now on display at Gilwell Park. The car, nicknamed Jam Roll, was sold after his death by Olave Baden - Powell in 1945. Jam Roll and Eccles were reunited at Gilwell for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007. Recently it has been purchased on behalf of Scouting and is owned by a charity, B-P Jam Roll Ltd. Funds are being raised to repay the loan that was used to purchase the car. Baden - Powell also had a positive impact on improvements in youth education. Under his dedicated command the world Scouting movement grew. By 1922 there were more than a million Scouts in 32 countries ; by 1939 the number of Scouts was in excess of 3.3 million. At the 5th World Scout Jamboree in 1937, Baden - Powell gave his farewell to Scouting, and retired from public Scouting life. 22 February, the joint birthday of Robert and Olave Baden - Powell, continues to be marked as Founder 's Day by Scouts and Thinking Day by Guides to remember and celebrate the work of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide of the World. In his final letter to the Scouts, Baden - Powell wrote : I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self - indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. `` Be prepared '' in this way, to live happy and to die happy -- stick to your Scout Promise always -- even after you have ceased to be a boy -- and God help you to do it. Personal life Olave Baden - Powell 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 St 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. The Scouts of England each donated a penny to buy Baden - Powell a wedding gift, a car ( note that this is not the Rolls - Royce they were presented with in 1929 ). There is a monument to their marriage inside St Mary 's Church, Brownsea Island. Baden - Powell and Olave lived in Pax Hill near Bentley, Hampshire from about 1919 until 1939. The Bentley house was a gift of her father. Directly after he had married, Baden - Powell began to suffer persistent headaches, which were considered by his doctor to be of psychosomatic origin and treated with dream analysis. The headaches disappeared upon his moving into a makeshift bedroom set up on his balcony. Baden - Powells ' grave at St Peter 's Cemetery in Nyeri, Kenya In 1939, Baden - Powell and Olave moved to a cottage he had commissioned in Nyeri, Kenya, near Mount Kenya, where he had previously been to recuperate. The small one - room house, which he named Paxtu, was located on the grounds of the Outspan Hotel, owned by Eric Sherbrooke Walker, Baden - Powell 's first private secretary and one of the first Scout inspectors. Walker also owned the Treetops Hotel, approximately 17 km out in the Aberdare Mountains, often visited by Baden - Powell and people of the Happy Valley set. The Paxtu cottage is integrated into the Outspan Hotel buildings and serves as a small Scouting museum. Baden - Powell died on 8 January 1941 and is buried at St Peter 's Cemetery in Nyeri. His gravestone bears a circle with a dot in the centre `` ʘ '', which is the trail sign for `` Going home '', or `` I have gone home ''. His wife Olave moved back to England in 1942, although when she died ( in 1977 ), her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband. The Kenyan government has declared Baden - Powell 's grave a national monument. Children and grandchildren Baden - Powell with wife and three children, 1917 Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell ( 1857 -- 1941 ), m. ( 1912 ) Olave St Clair Soames ( 1889 -- 1977 ) Arthur Robert Peter Baden - Powell ( 1913 -- 1962 ) ( later 2nd Baron Baden - Powell ), m. ( 1936 ) Carine Crause - Boardman Robert Crause Baden - Powell ( b. 1936 ) ( later 3rd Baron Baden - Powell ) David Michael Baden - Powell ( b. 1940 ) ( current heir to the title ) Wendy Dorothy Lilian Baden - Powell ( b. 1944 ) Heather Grace Baden - Powell ( 1915 -- 1986 ), m. ( 1940 ) John Hall King ( 1913 -- 2004 ) Michael Robert Hall King ( 1942 -- 1966 ), who died in the sinking of SS Heraklion Timothy John King ( 1946 -- 1995 ) Betty St Clair Baden - Powell ( 1917 -- 2004 ), m. ( 1936 ) Gervas Charles Robert Clay ( 1907 -- 2009 ) Gillian Clay Robin Clay Nigel Clay Crispin Clay In addition, when Olave 's sister Auriol Davidson ( née Soames ) died in 1919, Olave and Robert took her three nieces, Christian ( 1912 -- 1975 ), Clare ( 1913 -- 1980 ), and Yvonne ( 1918 -- 1995 ? ), into their family and brought them up as their own children. Personal beliefs A World War I propaganda poster drawn by Baden - Powell 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 in 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. '' Some early Scouting `` Thanks '' badges ( from 1911 ) and the Scouting `` Medal of Merit '' badge had a swastika symbol on them. This was undoubtedly influenced by the use by Rudyard Kipling of the swastika on the jacket of his published books, including `` Kim '', which was used by Baden - Powell as a basis for the Wolf Cub branch of the Scouting Movement. The swastika had been a symbol for luck in India long before being adopted by the National Socialist Party in 1920, and when Nazi use of the swastika became more widespread, the Scouts stopped using it. According to a biography by Michael Rosenthal, Baden - Powell used the swastika because he was a Nazi sympathiser. By contrast, Jeal argues that Baden - Powell had been ignorant of the symbol 's growing association with Nazism and that he had used the symbol for its centuries - old meaning of `` good luck '' in India. ( Nazi Germany banned Scouting, a competitor to the Hitler Youth, in June 1934, seeing it as `` a haven for young men opposed to the new State ''. Based on the regime 's view of Scouting as a dangerous espionage organisation, Baden - Powell 's name was included in `` The Black Book '', a 1940 list of people slated for detention following the planned conquest of the United Kingdom. ) Sexuality 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. Bibliography Library resources about Robert Baden - Powell Resources in your library Resources in other libraries By Robert Baden - Powell Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Cover of first part of Scouting for Boys, January 1908 Military books Baden - Powell published books and other texts during his years of military service both to finance his life and to generally educate his men. 1884 : Reconnaissance and Scouting 1885 : Cavalry Instruction 1889 : Pigsticking or Hoghunting 1896 : The Downfall of Prempeh 1897 : The Matabele Campaign 1899 : Aids to Scouting for N. - C. Os and Men 1900 : Sport in War 1901 : Notes and Instructions for the South African Constabulary 1905 : Ambidexterity ( with John Jackson ) 1907 : Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa 1910 : British Discipline, Essay 32 of Essays on Duty and Discipline 1914 : Quick Training for War Scouting books Baden - Powell was regarded as an excellent storyteller. During his whole life he told `` ripping yarns '' to audiences. After having published Scouting for Boys, Baden - Powell kept on writing more handbooks and educative materials for all Scouts, as well as directives for Scout Leaders. In his later years, he also wrote about the Scout movement and his ideas for its future. He spent most of the last two years of his life in Africa, and many of his later books had African themes. Currently, many pages of his field diary, complete with drawings, are on display at the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas. 1908 : Scouting for Boys 1909 : Yarns for Boy Scouts 1912 : The Handbook for the Girl Guides or How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire ( co-authored with Agnes Baden - Powell ) 1913 : Boy Scouts Beyond The Sea : My World Tour 1915 : Indian Memories ( American title Memories of India ) 1915 : My Adventures as a Spy 1916 : Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns 1916 : The Wolf Cub 's Handbook 1918 : Girl Guiding 1919 : Aids To Scoutmastership 1921 : What Scouts Can Do : More Yarns 1921 : An Old Wolf 's Favourites 1922 : Rovering to Success 1927 : Life 's Snags and How to Meet Them 1929 : Scouting and Youth Movements est 1929 : Last Message to Scouts 1932 : He - who - sees - in - the - dark ; the Boys ' Story of Frederick Burnham, the American Scout 1933 : Lessons From the Varsity of Life 1934 : Adventures and Accidents 1935 : Scouting Round the World 1936 : Adventuring to Manhood 1937 : African Adventures 1938 : Birds and Beasts of Africa 1939 : Paddle Your Own Canoe 1940 : More Sketches Of Kenya Compilation of articles and excerpts 1955 : B. - P. 's Outlook : Selections from the Founder 's contributions to `` The Scouter '' magazine from 1909 -- 1940 1956 : Adventuring with Baden - Powell Drawings, paintings, and sculptures Baden - Powell made paintings and drawings almost every day of his life. Most have a humorous or informative character. Baden - Powell was a consummate artist, and his books are scattered with his pen - and - ink sketches, frequently whimsical. Unfortunately, there is no catalogue of his paintings, some of which appear in some of his books, and twelve hang in the British Scout Headquarters at Gilwell Park. 1905 Bust of Capt. John Smith ? ? ? ? The Blind Negro ? ? ? ? The Vigil, now at British Scout HQ at Gilwell Park Awards Statue of Baden - Powell by Don Potter in front of Baden - Powell House in London Memorial to Baden - Powell, `` Chief Scout of the World '', at Westminster Abbey In 1937 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 Order of Christ, the Grand Commander of the Greek Order of the Redeemer ( 1920 ), the Commander of the French Légion d'honneur ( 1925 ), the First Class of the Hungarian Order of Merit ( 1929 ), the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark, the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, and the Order of Polonia Restituta. The Silver Wolf Award worn by Robert Baden - Powell is handed down the line of his successors, with the current Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, wearing this original award. The Bronze Wolf Award, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, was first awarded to Baden - Powell by a unanimous decision of the then International Committee on the day of the institution of the Bronze Wolf in Stockholm in 1935. He was also the first recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award in 1926, the highest award conferred by the Boy Scouts of America. In 1927, at the Swedish National Jamboree he was awarded by the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund with the `` Großes Dankabzeichen des ÖPB. In 1931 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. Baden - Powell was also one of the first and few recipients of the Goldene Gemse, the highest award conferred by the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund. In 1931, Major Frederick Russell Burnham dedicated Mount Baden - Powell in California to his old Scouting friend from forty years before. Today their friendship is honoured in perpetuity with the dedication of the adjoining peak, Mount Burnham. Baden - Powell was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on numerous occasions, including 10 separate nominations in 1928. He was awarded the Wateler Peace Prize in 1937. 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. Styles The family name legally changed from Powell to Baden - Powell by Royal Licence on 30 April 1902. 1857 -- 1860 : Mr Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell 1860 -- 1876 : Mr Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1876 : Sub-Lieutenant Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1876 -- 1884 : Lieutenant Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1884 -- 1892 : Captain Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1892 -- 1896 : Major Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1896 -- 25 April 1897 : Major ( Bvt. Lieutenant - Colonel ) Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 25 April -- 8 May 1897 : Lieutenant - Colonel Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 7 May 1897 -- 1900 : Lieutenant - Colonel ( Bvt. Colonel ) Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1900 -- 1901 : Major - General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell 1901 -- 1907 : Major - General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, CB 1907 -- 3 October 1909 : Lieutenant - General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, CB 3 October -- 9 November 1909 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, KCVO, CB 9 November 1909 -- 1912 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, KCB, KCVO 1912 -- 1921 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, KCB, KCVO, KStJ 1921 -- 1923 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, Bt., KCB, KCVO, KStJ 1923 -- 1927 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, Bt., GCVO, KCB, KStJ 1927 -- 1929 : Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell, Bt., GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ 1929 -- 1937 : Lieutenant - General The Right Honourable The Baron Baden - Powell, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, Bt. 1937 -- 1941 : Lieutenant - General The Right Honourable The Baron Baden - Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, Bt. Promotions Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant -- 11 September 1876 ( retroactively granted the rank of Lieutenant from the same date on 17 September 1878 ) Captain -- 16 May 1883 Major -- 1 July 1892 Brevet Lieutenant - Colonel -- 25 March 1896 Lieutenant - Colonel -- 25 April 1897 Brevet Colonel -- 8 May 1897 Major - General -- 23 May 1900 Lieutenant - General -- 10 June 1907 Honours British Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB ) -- 9 November 1909 ( CB : 1901 ) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO ) -- 1 January 1923 ( KCVO : 3 October 1909 ) Knight of Grace of the Venerable Order of St John ( KStJ ) -- 23 May 1912 Baronet -- 1 January 1921 ( dated 21 February 1923 ) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) -- 3 June 1927 Baron Baden - Powell, of Gilwell in the County of Essex -- 17 September 1929 Member of the Order of Merit ( OM ) -- 11 May 1937 Others Grand Officer of the Order of Christ of Portugal ( GOC ) -- 7 October 1919 Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer of the Kingdom of Greece -- 21 October 1920 Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark -- 11 October 1921 Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion of Czechoslovakia -- 6 November 1929 Arms Coat of arms of Robert Baden - Powell, 1st Baron Baden - Powell Adopted 1929 Coronet Coronet of a baron. Crest 1st : a Lion passant Or in the paw a broken Tiltilatter the head a like Crown charged on the shoulders with a Cross Patée Argent and supporting with the paws a Sword Erect proper Pommel and Hilt Gold ( Baden ). This latter is not the crest of any Baden family in Britain but that of the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, to which the Baden - Powells had no right. Escutcheon Quarterly : 1 and 4th, Per fess Or and Argent a Lion rampant gules between two Tilting Spears erect proper ( Powell ) ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Lion rampant proper on the head a Crown Vallary Or between four Crosses Patée Gules and as many Fleur - de-lis Azure alternately ( Baden ). As above, this latter is not the shield of any Baden family in Britain but that of the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, to which the Baden - Powells had no right. Supporters Not shown here. Dexter : an Officer of 13th / 18th Hussars in full dress his Sword drawn over his shoulder proper ; sinister : a Boy Scout holding a Staff also proper. Motto Ar Nyd Yw Pwyll Pyd Yw ( Where there is steadiness, there will be a Powell ). Orders Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB ) -- 9 November 1909 ( CB : 1901 ) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO ) -- 1 January 1923 ( KCVO : 3 October 1909 ) Knight of Grace of the Venerable Order of St John ( KStJ ) -- 23 May 1912 Grand Officer of the Order of Christ of Portugal ( GOC ) -- 7 October 1919 Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer of the Kingdom of Greece -- 21 October 1920 Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark -- 11 October 1921 Baronet -- 1 January 1921 ( dated 21 February 1923 ) Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) -- 3 June 1927 Baron Baden - Powell, of Gilwell in the County of Essex -- 17 September 1929 Member of the Order of Merit ( OM ) -- 11 May 1937 See also Scouting portal Biography portal Baden - Powell House Baden - Powell 's unilens Scouting memorials Notes Jump up ^ `` RELIEF OF MAFEKING CELEBRATIONS ''. The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. 26 May 1900. p. 1225. 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ISBN 0 - 340 - 18102 - 8. Jump up ^ Jeal, Tim ( 2001 ). Baden - Powell : Founder of the Boy Scouts. p. 134. ^ Jump up to : Baden - Powell, Lieuth. - Gen. Sir Robert ( 1915 ). `` My Adventures As A Spy ''. C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017. Jump up ^ Baden - Powell, Robert ( 1884 ). Reconnaissance and scouting. A practical course of instruction, in twenty plain lessons, for officers, non-commissioned officers, and men. London : W. Clowes and Sons. OCLC 9913678. Jump up ^ Baden - Powell, Robert ( 1897 ). The Matabele Campaign, 1896. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0 - 8371 - 3566 - 4. Jump up ^ Proctor, Tammy M. ( July 2000 ). `` A Separate Path : Scouting and Guiding in Interwar South Africa ''. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42 ( 3 ). ISSN 0010 - 4175. Jump up ^ Barrett, C.R.B. ( 1911 ). History of The XIII. Hussars. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons. Archived from the original on 21 October 2006. 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Jump up ^ Jones, Spencer. `` Scouting for Soldiers : Reconnaissance and the British Cavalry, 1899 -- 1914 ''. War in History. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2012. Jump up ^ Reported as `` a Yorkshire division '' in The Times, 29 October 1907, p. 6 ; the Dictionary of National Biography lists it as the Northumbrian Division, which encompassed units from the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire as well as Northumbria proper. Jump up ^ Baden - Powell, Robert ; Stephenson Smyth Baden - Powell Baden - Powell of Gilwell, Robert ; Boehmer, Elleke ( 2005 ). Scouting for Boys : A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship. Oxford University Press. p. lv. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 280246 - 0. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Jump up ^ `` Lord Robert Baden - Powell `` B-P '' -- Chief Scout of the World ``. The Wivenhoe Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 3 October 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2006. 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Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. ^ Jump up to : Warren, Allen, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 14 February 2018 She also quartered the Powell arms with those of the duke of Baden, to which she was not entitled : surprisingly, the College of Arms agreed to this. Related readings : biographies Begbie, Harold ( 1900 ). The story of Baden - Powell : The Wolf that never Sleeps. London : Grant Richards. Kiernan, R.H. ( 1939 ). Baden - Powell. London : Harrap. Saunders, Hilary St George ( 1948 ). The Left Handshake. ( in Dutch ) Palstra, Theo P.M. ( April 1967 ). Baden - Powel, zijn leven en werk. Den Haag : De Nationale Padvindersraad. Drewery, Mary ( 1975 ). Baden - Powell : the man who lived twice. London : Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0 - 340 - 18102 - 8. Brendon, Piers ( 1980 ). Eminent Edwardians. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0 - 395 - 29195 - X. Jeal, Tim ( 1989 ). Baden - Powell. London : Hutchinson. ISBN 0 - 09 - 170670 - X. Hillcourt, William ; Baden - Powell, Olave ( 1992 ). Baden - Powell : The Two Lives Of A Hero. New York : Gilwellian Press d / b / a Scouter 's Journal Magazine. ISBN 0 - 8395 - 3594 - 5. ( in French ) Maxence, Philippe ( 2003 ). Baden - Powell, éclaireur de légende et fondateur du scoutisme. Perrin. Warren, Allen ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ). `` Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth ''. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( online ed. ). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 30520. ( Subscription or UK public library membership required. ) ( in French ) Maxence, Philippe ( 2016 ). Baden - Powell. Perrin. External links Find more aboutRobert Baden - Powell, 1st Baron Baden - Powellat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scouting. 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Question: who was the founder of the scout movement
Answer: Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, DL