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    Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell GBE (née Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife...
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    1912 Baden-Powell married Olave St Clair Soames. He gave guidance to The Scout Association and Girl Guides Association until retiring in 1937. Baden-Powell...
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    Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell (16 December 1858 – 2 June 1945) was the younger sister of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and was most noted for...
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    Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, Olave, Baroness Baden-Powell, G.B.E., are in Nyeri, Nyeri County, Kenya, near Mount Kenya. Lord Baden-Powell died on...
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  • movement. Baden Baden-Powell (1860–1937), military aviation pioneer. Olave Baden-Powell (1889–1977), daughter-in-law and Robert Baden-Powell's wife, World...
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    father in 2023. Baden-Powell is also the great-grandson of the founder of World Scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief...
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    World Scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, and Olave Baden-Powell, a great-grandson of the mathematician Baden Powell. Michael Baden-Powell was born in Sinoia,...
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    Pax Lodge (redirect from Olave House)
    March 1991, preceded by Olave House (1959–1988), named after Olave Baden-Powell (World Chief Guide and wife of Robert Baden-Powell who founded the Scouting...
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  • 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...
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  • Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and a grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Olave Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell was born in Johannesburg...
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    named after Olave St Clair Baden-Powell. Lady Baden-Powell was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder...
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  • (née Baden-Powell; 16 April 1917 – 24 April 2004) was the younger daughter of Olave Baden-Powell, the first Chief Guide and Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron...
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    birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell and of Lady Olave Baden-Powell, his wife and World Chief Guide. Other Scouts celebrate...
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    Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century...
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    Alpha Phi Omega use it as well. In his book, Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell chose the three-finger salute for Scouts to represent the three aspects...
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    Danish Guide and Scout Association). In addition, she is patron of the Olave Baden Powell Society (OB-PS), a support organisation for the World Association...
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  • was Lord Christopher Soames son of Harold Soames, whose sister was Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide. Her mother was Mary nee Churchill, the daughter...
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    Chief Guide – Olave Baden-Powell is the only person ever to have been World Chief Guide. She was the wife of founder Lord Baden-Powell and lived from...
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    style. The foundation stone was laid in 1959 by World Chief Guide Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, and it was opened in 1961 by Queen Elizabeth II. The largest part...
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  • General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — buried in alongside the ashes of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell, in Nyeri, Kenya...
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  • 1910 by Robert Baden-Powell, with the assistance of his sister Agnes Baden-Powell. After his marriage in 1912, his wife Olave Baden-Powell took a leading...
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  • Guiding organisation. Olave Baden-Powell, wife of Robert Baden Powell became the first Chief Guide in 1918. 1930 - 1977 Olave Baden-Powell (only holder of this...
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  • October 31, 1936" by virtue of certification signed by J. S. Wilson, Olave Baden-Powell, and Daniel Spry. For most of the late 20th century and into the 21st...
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  • complete the Olave Baden Powell award. This is the peak achievement of award available to under Guides between ages 18-30 years. Canada's Baden-Powell Service...
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  • was inaugurated on 16 October 1966 by the World Chief Guide, Lady Olave Baden-Powell. Mazumdar joined Guiding at a very young age in 1922. After India's...
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  • (b. 1942) Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance: Founder's Day or "B.-P. day"...
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    British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international...
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    Kerr gave Trefusis the phone number of Pax Hill, the Baden-Powells' home. Olave Baden-Powell and her little daughters were in bed with influenza when...
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    associated to the largest gathering of youth that ever took place." Olave Baden-Powell coined the term jamborese to refer to the lingua franca used between...
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    retrieved 14 December 2012 "Olave St Clair Baden-Powell (née Soames), Baroness Baden-Powell; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell". National Portrait Gallery...
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