Robert Stephenson Smyth (Powell) Baden-Powell OM GCMG (1857 - 1941)

Born 22 Feb 1857 in 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington, London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Olave St Clair (Soames) Baden-Powell GBE — married 30 Oct 1912 in Parkstone, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1941 at age 83 in Nyeri, Central Kenya, Kenya

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Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM GCMG GCVO GBE KCB DL (/ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊ.əl/ Baden as in maiden; Powell as in Noel) (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association.

Biography

Parents' Marriage

St. Luke's Chelsea | 10 Mar 1846

Chelsea, London, Middlesex, England UK ^[1]

On 10 March 1846, at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, the Rev. Powell married Henrietta Grace Smyth (3 September 1824 – 13 October 1914), eldest daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth and 28 years his junior. Quickly they had Warington (early 1847), George (late 1847), Augustus (1849) and Francis (1850). After three further children who died when very young, they had Stephe (pronounced 'Stevie'), Agnes (1858) and Baden (1860). The three youngest children and the often ill Augustus were close friends. Reverend Powell died when Stephe was three, and as tribute to his father and to set her own children apart from their half-siblings and cousins, the mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell. Subsequently, Stephe was raised by his mother, a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed.

Baden-Powell was born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell, familiarly called Stephe (pronounced "Stevie"), at 6 Stanhope Street (now 11 Stanhope Terrace), Paddington in London, on 22 February 1857. ^{[2] [3]} He was named after his godfather, Robert Stephenson, the railway and civil engineer; his third name was his mother's maiden name. His father, the Rev. Baden Powell, a Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University, already had four teenage children from the second of his two previous marriages.

In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking.

He wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908.

After his marriage on 30 October 1912 to Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell and his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting and Girl Guiding Movements.

Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941.

• Blue Plaque for Robert (Powell) Baden-Powell OM erected in 1972

Inscription: "Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) Chief Scout of the World lived here"

• Robert Baden-Powell . . images . . 48 portraits npg uk
  

Bibliography

For complete bibliography, please see freespace page

• 1884: Reconnaissance and Scouting
• 1885: Cavalry Instruction
• 1889: Pigsticking or Hoghunting
• 1896: The Downfall of Prempeh
• 1897: The Matabele Campaign
• 1899: Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men
• 1900: Sport in War
• 1901: Notes and Instructions for the South African Constabulary
• 1907: Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa
• 1908: Scouting for Boys
• 1909: The Scout Library No.4 Scouting Games
• 1909: Yarns for Boy Scouts
• 1910: British Discipline, Essay 32 of Essays on Duty and Discipline
• 1912: The Handbook for the Girl Guides or How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire (co-authored with Agnes Baden-Powell)
• 1914: Quick Training for War

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1527729717 Page: London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Luke, Chelsea, Register of marriages, P74/LUK, Item 212 APID: 1,1623::6294186
2. ↑ Birth Registration: "England & Wales General Register Office"
   GRO Online Indexes - Birth (accessed 31 January 2023)
   Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (Mother's maiden name: Smyth).
   GRO Reference: 1857 Apr-May-Jun in Kensington Volume 01A Page 26.
3. ↑ The Peerage.com (M, #8753)

• Source: S-1527729717 Repository: #R-1674764337 Title: London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,1623::0 Repository: R-1674764337 Name: Ancestry.com
• Source: S-1530370364 Repository: #R-1674764337 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: = Contact via login

Notes : from trees.ancestry.com - But no longer available.

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Lord Baden-Powell(1857) Family

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Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden_Powell

Robert Baden Powell and his family

406px-'Are_you_in_this'_poster painted by Baden Powell during WW1

Robert Baden Powell

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See Also:

• Wikipedia: Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
• South African Constabulary and Major-General Baden-Powell
• In Perth, Western Australia, - July 1912 and The No. 29 WA Troop (Ocean Beach)
• Wikidata: Item Q12665, en:Wikipedia
• 'Martin-Leake, Double VC' by Ann Clayton