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Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Baden-Powell
Lord Baden-Powell in 1952
Born
Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell

(1913-10-30)30 October 1913
Ewhurst, East Sussex, England
Died9 December 1962(1962-12-09) (aged 49)
London, England

Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, FRSA (known as Peter; 30 October 1913 – 9 December 1962) was the son of Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and Olave St. Clair Soames. He served for two years in the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia and then in the Southern Rhodesian Civil Service until the end of the Second World War, when he returned to Britain to assume his title and became a director of companies, and a Special Constable with the City of London Police.

Family life and work

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He was born in England, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Olave St. Clair Soames. He attended Dane Court preparatory school in Pyrford and then followed in his father's footsteps to Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey. He entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst but did not complete the course. He served in the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in Southern Rhodesia from 1934 to 1937. He married Carine Crause Boardman (1913 – 14 May 1993), a nurse from Johannesburg, South Africa, on 3 January 1936. Marriage was forbidden by the BSAP terms of service, so he obtained employment in the Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department from 1937 to 1945. He had two sons and a daughter:

After he inherited the peerage, he returned to Britain in 1945 for eighteen months and then permanently in 1949 and became a company director[further explanation needed] and a special constable with the City of London Police.

He died on 9 December 1962, aged 49, in St Thomas' Hospital, London. Already suffering leukaemia, he spent a night in his parents' 1929 caravan in wet and cold conditions at a Gilwell re-union in September 1962 and caught a cold, which subsequently turned to pneumonia, then pleurisy, which led to a fatal heart attack.[2][3]

Later career

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He was named Arthur after his mother's brother, Robert after his father, and Peter after the eponymous character of the play Peter Pan by James Barrie, of whom his father was a fan (likewise, he named his daughter Wendy after another character in the play).[4]

He was:

In May 1952 he visited Poole, Dorset and opened the new hall of the 1st Hamworthy Scouts' who had been started by some boys from his father's 1907 Brownsea Island experimental camp. He played his father in a pageant on the history of Scouting at the 50th Anniversary World Scout Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield in 1957. He was awarded:

Arms

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Coat of arms of Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell
Adopted
1929
Coronet
Coronet of a baron.
Crest
1st: a Lion passant Or in the paw a broken Tilting Spear in bend proper pendent therefrom by a Riband Gules an Escutcheon resting on a Wreath Sable charged with a Pheon Or (Powell); 2nd: out of a Crown Vallary Or a Demi Lion rampant Gules on the head a like Crown charged on the shoulders with a Cross Patée Argent and supporting with the paws a Sword Erect proper Pommel and Hilt Gold (Baden).
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1 and 4th, Per fess Or and Argent a Lion rampant gules between two Tilting Spears erect proper (Powell); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Lion rampant proper on the head a Crown Vallary Or between four Crosses Patée Gules and as many Fleur-de-lis Azure alternately (Baden).
Supporters
Dexter: an Officer of 13th/18th Hussars in full dress his Sword drawn over his shoulder proper; sinister: a Boy Scout holding a Staff also proper.
Motto
Ar Nyd Yw Pwyll Pyd Yw (Where there is steadiness, there will be a Powell).

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ [1] [dead link]
  2. ^ Jeal, Tim (1989). Baden-Powell. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-170670-X.
  3. ^ Charles Mosley, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106th ed.). Crans, Switzerland: Burke Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd.
  4. ^ "B-P's Last Message". Archived from the original on 21 January 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  5. ^ Kerr, Rose. "Peter Baden-Powell 1913 – 1963". Archived from the original on 4 October 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  6. ^ "Aus Österreich-Bundeskorps". Unser Ziel-Monatsschrift für Pfadfinderführer (in German). Pfadfinder Österreichs: 31. October 1957.
  7. ^ 䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 [Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan] (PDF). Reinanzaka Scout Club (in Japanese). 23 May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell's Family Tree". Geni.com. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Pedigree Chart for Henrietta Grace Smyth: Geneagraphie - Families all over the world". Geneagraphie.com. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  10. ^ "The Powell Pedigree | Home". Spanglefish.com. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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