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  • Baden-Powell, oil painting by S. Slocombe, 1916; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

    …and for their use Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys was issued in 1908. He retired from the army in 1910 to devote all his time to the Boy Scouts, and in the same year he and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell (1858–1945) founded the Girl Guides. His wife, Olave, Lady Baden-Powell (1889–1977),…

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