Saturday, 27 June 2026

The First Chief Scout Baden-Powell


Who was the first chief scout?
It was Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857-1941. Clearly a man of his time, he has subsequeently been criticised by later generations for some of his ideas.

Find South Africa on your globe

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Tell what you know of the cubs, brownies, scouts and guides
I was never a boy scout, although my mother was always quite keen to get me into a scout troop. She did not mange it for some reason. My sister was in the brownies and then the guides and did some of the various badges. It is a large and strange phenonemon still going and getting into the news from time to time when it is considered controversial.

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The First Chief Scout Baden-Powell

Who was the first chief scout? It was Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857-1941. Clearly a m...