Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a cserkészet megalapítója lóháton / Lord Rob...

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a cserkészet megalapítója lóháton / Lord Robert Baden-Powell on horseback. photo

Lord Robert Baden-Powell (1857?1941) was a British lieutenant general, writer, and the founder of the Scout Movement. He served in the British Army, where he gained experience in military reconnaissance and survival techniques, later drawing on these when writing his youth-oriented works. In 1907 he organized an experimental camp on Brownsea Island, which is now regarded as the beginning of scouting, and in 1908 he published Scouting for Boys. These writings and methods spread scout training worldwide and made Baden-Powell the movement?s first global leader (Chief Scout). He spent the final years of his life in Kenya with his family, where he died in 1941, leaving the message that everyone should try to ?leave the world a little better than they found it.?