Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1857
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 08-Jan-1941
Profession: writer, politician, military officer, sculptor, Scout leader
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( BAY-d?n POH-?l; 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement.
- Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement.Educated at Charterhouse in Surrey, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa.
- In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking.
- Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys.
- In 1907, he held a demonstration camp, the Brownsea Island Scout camp, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting.
- Based on his earlier books, particularly Aids to Scouting, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Sir Arthur Pearson, for boy readership.
- In 1910 Baden-Powell retired from the army and formed The Boy Scouts Association. The first Scout Rally was held at The Crystal Palace in 1909, at which appeared a number of girls in Scout uniform, who told Baden-Powell that they were the "Girl Scouts", following which, in 1910, Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell started the Girl Guides Movement.
- In 1912 he married Olave St Clair Soames.
- He gave guidance to the Scouting and Girl Guiding Movements until retiring in 1937.
- Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941.
- His grave is now a National Monument.
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