LORD ROBERT BADEN-POWELL

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LORD ROBERTBADEN-POWELL

• Chief Scout
• of the World

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• Young Robert Baden-Powell (B-P), second from the
  left, as a member of the Wimbledon Rifle Team in
  1874, when he was only 17 years old.

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• B-P exhibits his creative talents with other
  officers of the 13th Hussars in India, 1877.

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• Lieutenant Robert S.S. Baden-Powell,
• 13th Hussars, Age 21, in 1878.

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• B-P with a group of officers from the 13th
  Hussars. He is seated, second from the left.

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• B-P was on a regimental polo team in India.

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• B-P as adjutant of the 13th Hussars in 1895, at
  age 38.

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• He shaved off his moustache for an amateur
  theatrical production with his regimental unit.

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• South African Prince (later King) Dinizulu during
  the Zulu civil war of 1883-1884. B-P tracked him
  through Natal, South Africa in 1888.

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• A group of native warriors during the Matabele
  War, 1896-1897, in Zimbabwe.

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• B-P on horse patrol in the Matopo Hills in 1896,
  during the Matabele War.

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• While in Africa, Baden-Powell honed many of the
  skills he would later incorporate into Boy Scouts
  principles, including orienteering, woodcraft,
  surviving in the wilderness, thinking
  independently, and using initiative.

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• B-P with officers of the Protectorate Regiment
  in 1899.

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• B-P at Mafeking during the Boer War in South
  Africa, 1899.

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• Major-General
• Robert Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell, 1900, at
  age 43.

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• By 1908 B-P had returned to England and began
  publishing chapters of a new book, Scouting for
  Boys, every two weeks. Boys everywhere began
  buying it and forming themselves into patrols.

By the end of that first year of scouting, there
were over sixty thousand new Boy Scouts!
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By the spring of 1910, B-P was traveling
frequently to spread the word and visit Scout
Troops. He delivered up to twelve lectures per
month on Scouting.

• Within the next two years he went to Russia,
  China, Japan, and the United States, seeing
  first-hand that Scouting had taken hold worldwide.

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• A photograph of Baden-Powell on his wedding day
  in 1912.

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• Lieutenant-General B-P
• in France during
• World War I, 1916.

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• In September of 1919 the first Scoutmasters
  Course was held. When they finished their
  training, a simple wooden bead was given to each
  man to recognize his accomplishments. This is
  why the Scouting leaders training is now known as
  the Wood Badge Course.

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• The wooden beads given to each Scoutmasters
  Course participant came from a long necklace worn
  by Prince Dinizulu in Africa over thirty years
  earlier. The necklace contained 1,000 wooden
  beads!

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• At the first Boy Scouts World Jamboree at
  Olympia, London,
• in 1920, B-P was
• officially named and recognized as
• Chief Scout
• of the World.

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• In 1922 a census was performed, which found that
  there were over one million Scouts in thirty-two
  countries!

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• B-P with Scouts at the Imperial Jamboree, London,
  1924.

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• B-P with King Christian X of Denmark at the
  Second World Scouting Jamboree outside
  Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1924.

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• Lord Baden-Powell and his family returning from a
  trip to South Africa in 1927.

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• PAX HILL
• Lord Baden-Powells home
• in Bentley, Hampshire, England

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• B-P and his wife Olave await an audience with the
  Pope at the Vatican in 1933.

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• B-P at home with his dogs in 1935 when he was 78.

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• Lord Robert Baden-Powell with the Prince of Wales
  at a Scouts Rally (undated)

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• Portrait of Lord Robert Baden-Powell painted by
  Benjamin Eggleston, an American painter from
  Minnesota.

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LORD ROBERTBADEN-POWELLFebruary 22, 1857
-January 8, 1941Chief Scout of the World