Robert Baden-Powell

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I know a little bit about the Boer Wars and a little bit about that time period." And I was like, "If he's fighting for the British, I don't know if I would necessarily be calling him a hero." So my ears perked up a little bit, and I found the story of this murderer's great-grandfather, Robert Baden-Powell, with just a little bit that they told in that episode, really, really fascinating, especially the fact that he was the founder of the scouting movement.

And now, I think many of us listening were probably members of the Scouts in some way, shape, or form throughout our lives.

I myself only made it to the Brownie level.

I'm also gonna get a little bit into some controversy and problematic points of the organization throughout its history, so strap in, get your old Girl Scout vests on if you can find them, and enjoy the episode.

As you can imagine, in order to understand the Girl Guides, which would become the Girl Scouts in the United States, you first got to understand who the founder of the Scouts movement was.

Robert Baden-Powell was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell on February 22nd, 1857 in Paddington, London, England, I always think of the bear, to Baden Powell, a professor of geometry at the University of Oxford and a priest for the Church of England.

I'm not sure how that works, as I always was told that a priest had to be celibate, but maybe a priest for the Church of England is different? I don't know.

He was neatly but not gaudily dressed in a flat-brimmed hat, a colorful handkerchief, a flannel shirt, a bunch of ribbons, a haversack, football shorts, brown boots, a whistle, and a hockey stick.

He was, in fact, one of General Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts.

Scan him closely.

Do not dismiss him with a passing glance, for you are looking at the boy of destiny, at Clarence McAndrew Chugwater, who saved England.

I think it's because they like drop the second R. Jared Baden-Clay.

So who the fuck is Jared Baden-Clay? Well, Jared Baden-Clay was the grandson of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, who was a British Army officer, writer, and the founder of the international scout movement.

Like Boy Scouts?

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So this gentleman, Robert Baden-Powell, he essentially started this, obviously, the International Scout Movement that ends up being a massive organization that now has a global youth network with more than 50 million members across over 170 countries dedicated to youth development through outdoor activities, leadership, training, and community service.

You just signed Alden up, right? She

The Doctor says that he recognises where they are, and he has seen the people behave like this on a former occasion.

Stephen asks what occasion, and bizarrely, the Doctor says, the relief of Mafeking, which is an obscure reference to Baden-Powell and the Boer War, isn't it?

Yes, 1900.

What on earth is that about? I think Hartnell's on a wacky

The problem was always too much information.

The same with Sir Baden-Powell, the leader of the Scout movement.

And yet you read his letters to his mother and they're kind of disgusting.

And this is the European mind.

Scouts, are found all over the world.

When Sir Robert Baden-Powell formed the first troop of Boy Scouts, 6,000 girls enrolled themselves.

But, as Sir Robert's project did not include the admission of girls, he asked his sister, Miss Baden-Powell, to found a similar organization for girls, based on the Boy Scout laws, with activities and occupations properly adapted for girls.

She then founded the Girl Guide organization.

In America, in March 1912, the first patrols of girl guides were enrolled by miss juliet low in savannah georgia In 1913, the national headquarters were established by her in Washington, D.C., and Miss Edith

Through their scout activities, through participation in the actual business of life, cut down to the capacity of youth, these girls are being trained for citizenship in a school of service, a school that stresses the rights of the individual less than his responsibilities.

Girl Scouts are the American outgrowth of the Girl Guides of England.

though springing from the same source as the Boy Scouts of America, and sharing the same ideals of citizenship and service, the two organizations, on the advice of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the father of both, were made entirely distinct.

I mean, he's got a bunch of other kids as well, actually.

He's got a son called Victor Hearn, middle name Baden-Powell.

Wow.

Which I thought was rather cool.

But before we left, we had a very pleasant function to attend.

I had been charged by Sir Robert Baden-Powell to deliver a message to the Scouts of Dr. Graham's home for European children at Kalimpong.

Not only that, but incorporated with these Scouts was the first small body of Nepalese Boy Scouts.

It was a very interesting function indeed, and a most enthusiastic one.