Transcript LORD ROBERT BADEN-POWELL - EaDi (eee-dee)

LORD ROBERT
BADEN-POWELL
Chief Scout
of the World
Young Robert BadenPowell (B-P), second
from the left, as a
member of the
Wimbledon Rifle Team
in 1874, when he was
only 17 years old.
B-P exhibits his creative
talents with other
officers of the 13th
Hussars in India, 1877.
Lieutenant Robert
S.S. Baden-Powell,
13th Hussars, Age
21, in 1878.
B-P with a group of officers
from the 13th Hussars. He is
seated, second from the left.
B-P was on a
regimental polo
team in India.
B-P as adjutant
of the 13th
Hussars in 1895,
at age 38.
He shaved off his
moustache for an amateur
theatrical production with
his regimental unit.
South African Prince
(later King) Dinizulu
during the Zulu civil
war of 1883-1884. B-P
tracked him through
Natal, South Africa in
1888.
A group of native warriors
during the Matabele War,
1896-1897, in Zimbabwe.
B-P on horse patrol in
the Matopo Hills in
1896, during the
Matabele War.
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.
B-P with officers of the
Protectorate Regiment in 1899.
B-P at Mafeking
during the Boer
War in South
Africa, 1899.
Major-General
Robert Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell,
1900, at age 43.
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!
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.
A photograph of
Baden-Powell on
his wedding day
in 1912.
Lieutenant-General B-P
in France during
World War I, 1916.
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.
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!
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.
In 1922 a census
was performed,
which found that
there were over one
million Scouts in
thirty-two countries!
B-P with Scouts at the
Imperial Jamboree,
London, 1924.
B-P with King
Christian X of
Denmark at the
Second World
Scouting Jamboree
outside Copenhagen,
Denmark, in 1924.
Lord Baden-Powell and his
family returning from a trip
to South Africa in 1927.
PAX HILL
Lord Baden-Powell’s home
in Bentley, Hampshire, England
B-P and his wife
Olave await an
audience with the
Pope at the Vatican
in 1933.
B-P at home with his dogs in
1935 when he was 78.
Lord Robert BadenPowell with the
Prince of Wales at a
Scouts Rally
(undated)
Portrait of Lord
Robert BadenPowell painted by
Benjamin
Eggleston, an
American painter
from Minnesota.
LORD ROBERT
BADEN-POWELL
February 22, 1857 January 8, 1941
Chief Scout
of the World