Baron Baden-Powell
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Creation date | 1929 |
Monarch | George V |
Peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom |
First holder |
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron |
Present holder |
Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron |
Heir apparent | Michael Baden-Powell |
Remainder to | heirs male of the body of the grantee |
Subsidiary titles | Baronet of Bentley |
Baron Baden-Powell, of Gilwell in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1929 for the military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baronet, hero of the Siege of Mafeking and founder of the international Scouting movement. He had already been created a baronet, of Bentley, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 December 1922.
As of 2011, the titles are held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1962.[1]
The first Baron's father and siblings were also notable. Baden Powell, father of the first Baron, was a noted mathematician. Warington Baden-Powell, Sir George Baden-Powell, Agnes Baden-Powell and Baden Baden-Powell, siblings of the first Baron, all gained prominence in their own right.
Barons Baden-Powell (1929)
- Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941)
- Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962)
- Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell (born 1936)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, the Hon. David Michael Baden-Powell (born 1940).
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References
- ↑ Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990