page_title: Avocation
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: Avocation / People whose avocations were not their vocations / B
caption_attribution_description: English: Major-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1896. "The photograph was taken for Elliott and Fry by Francis Henry Hart in 1896 at the time of the Matabele Campaign. It was reissued at various times with different captions as Baden-Powell's fame grew. Baden Powell is decorated with an Ashanti Star ribbon."
context_page_description: An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside their workplaces were their true passions in life. Occasionally, as with Lord Baden-Powell and others, people who pursue an avocation are more remembered by history for their avocation than for their professional career.
  Many times a person's regular vocation may lead to an avocation. Many forms of humanitarian campaigning, such as work for organizations like Amnesty International and Greenpeace, may be done by people involved in the law or human rights issues as part of their work.
  Many people involved with youth work pursue this as an avocation.
caption: Baden-Powell, Robert
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