Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

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Buildings and alumni of Charterhouse, London and Surrey. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company after [H. Hale].

Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.

English social services / Sir George Newman ; with 8 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white.

The character factory : Baden-Powell and the origins of the boy scout movement / Michael Rosenthal.

"It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness : an argument for natural development and rational education / by John Jackson ; with an introduction by R.S.S. Baden-Powell.

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Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941

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Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness : an argument for natural development and rational education / by John Jackson ; with an introduction by R.S.S. Baden-Powell.