Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with
Baden-Powell in scout uniform, c. 1910–1920
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
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.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
…that they were the "Girl Scouts". In 1910, Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes started The Girl Guides Association. In 1912, Baden-Powell married Olave St Clair Soames. He gave guidance to The Scout Association and Girl Guides Association until retiring in 1937. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where…
Baden-Powell c. 1920
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.