Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell wrote the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which, with his previous 1899 book Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men captured the imagination of the boys of Britain and led to the creation of the Scout Movement.
Baden-Powell in his scouting uniform, c. 1910–20
Siege of Mafeking, 10 shillings (1900), Second Boer War currency issued by authority of Colonel Robert Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell on a patriotic postcard in 1900
A World War I propaganda poster drawn by Baden-Powell
Royal Victorian Order
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The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the monarch, members of the royal family, or to any viceroy or senior representative of the monarch. The present monarch, King Charles III, is the sovereign of the order. The order's motto is Victoria. The order's official day is 20 June. The order's chapel is the Savoy Chapel in London.
Breast star of Knights/Dames Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Mantle of the order bearing the star of a Knight Grand Cross
The Countess of Wessex (2013) wearing the riband of a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
The King's Chapel of the Savoy, which acts as the chapel of the Royal Victorian Order (photographed in 2020). The banners are those of the Sovereign (right) and of the Grand Master (left) of the Order as they were then in office.