Robert Baden-Powell (A little Biography)

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (play / beɪdən poʊ.əl /; February 22, 1857 - January 8, 1941), also known as BP or Lord Baden-bipi Powell, is a lieutenant general in the army, the author, and founder of the Scout Movement.

After attending school at Charterhouse, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 to 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Some military-themed books are written for reconnaissance and scout training in Africa in the widely read by boys. Based on the previous books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Pearson, for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a camping trip on Brownsea Island with Youth Brigade and the neighbor boy who started on August 1, 1907, which was then regarded as the beginning of Scouting activities.
After his marriage with Olave St. Clair Soames, Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and especially his wife who is very active in providing guidance to the Scouting Movement and daughter Scout. Baden-Powell died in Nyeri, Kenya in 1941.
Early life
Baden-Powell was born with the name of Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell, or more familiar with the call Stephe Powell, at No. 6 Stanhope Street (now No. 11 Stanhope Terrace) Paddington, London on February 22, 1857. He was named Robert Stephenson, while Smyth was the maiden name of his mother. His father was a priest named Baden-Powell, a Savilian the teaching of geometry at Oxford University and has four children from two previous marriages. On March 10, 1846 at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Reverend Powell married Henrietta Grace Smyth (3 September 1824-13 Oktober 1914), eldest daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth and 28 years younger. So quickly was born Warington (early 1847), George (late 1847), Augustus (1849) and Francis (1850). After three children died when very young, they have had Stephe, Agnes (1858) and Baden (1860). The third and youngest son Augustus was frequently ill. Reverend Powell died when Stephe was three years old, and as a tribute to him and to arrange their own children separated from siblings and cousins, his mother (Henrietta Grace Smyth) changed the family name to Baden-Powell. Subsequently, Stephe was raised by his mother, a woman who berketatapan that his children should succeed. Baden-Powell said of his mother in 1933 Secrets of my success is my mother.
After attending Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells, Stephe was awarded a scholarship to the school at Charterhouse. His first introduction to scouting skills, the ability of animals to hunt and cook - and avoiding teachers - in the adjacent forest, which is also a forbidden area. He also plays the piano and violin, was able to paint well using both hands and likes to play a role (drama). Holidays were spent doing a lot of sailing or canoeing expeditions with his brothers.