Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell (1857-)[1]

Born Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell in Paddington, London, on 22 February 1857, he attended Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells and was given a scholarship to Charterhouse, a prestigious public school. He entered the military in 1876, when he joined the 13th Hussars in India. Would go on to see service in various parts of the Empire, among which three postings in Southern Africa (in the early 1880s during the Zulu wars in Natal, in 1896 when he led reconnaissance missions into enemy territory during the Second Matabele War, and most famously during the Anglo-Boer War, when he and his forces held out for 217 days during Siege of Mafeking.) It was such experiences which led to his writing of a small manual, entitled Aids to Scouting (and many other similar publications later), and thence the founding of the international Boy Scout and Girl Scout movements (the latter with his sister, ). ,

Baden-Powell as amateur artist and performer

He played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, enjoyed acting and Baden-Powell was regarded as an excellent storyteller, who told "ripping yarns" to audiences.

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