Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell. She outlived her husband, who was 32 years her senior, by over 35 years.
Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Guide
Baden-Powell with her husband and their three children in 1917.
Ewhurst Place
Lady Baden-Powell visiting Helsinki in 1960. To her left, Helvi Sipilä, to her right, Jarl Wahlström.
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 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