Baden-Powell (of Gilwell), Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron
- Baden-Powell (of Gilwell), Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron
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born Feb. 22, 1857, London, Eng.
died Jan. 8, 1941, Nyeri, Kenya
British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (later Girl Scouts; see
scouting).
He was noted for his use of observation balloons in warfare in Africa (1884–85). In the
South African War, he became a national hero in the Siege of
Mafikeng. Having learned that his military textbook
Aids to Scouting (1899) was being used to train boys in woodcraft, he wrote
Scouting for Boys (1908) and that same year established the Boy Scout movement. In 1910, with his sister Agnes and his wife, Olave, he founded the Girl Guides.
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