Robert Baden-Powell Biography

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NAME: Robert Baden-Powell
OCCUPATION: Illustrator, Painter, Military Leader, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: February 22, 1857
DEATH DATE: January 08, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Nyeri, Kenya
Originally: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
AKA: 1st Baron Baden-Powell

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Robert Baden-Powell was a British military leader who is best known as the founder of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides Movement (later the Girl Scouts).

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Robert Baden-Powell was a lieutenant-general in the British Army. He is best known for founding the Boy Scouts when he learned that his military textbook Aids to Scouting was being used for training boys in woodcraft. He then wrote Scouting for Boys and retired from the army in 1910 to devote his time to the group. His sister, Agnes, helped to found the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the US).