Founder of Scouting

Birth name Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell
Nickname(s) B-P
Born 22 February 1857 Paddington, London, England
Died 8 January 1941 (aged 83) Nyeri, British Kenya
Service/branch British Army

Years of service 1876–1910
Rank Lieutenant-General

Commands held • Chief of Staff, Second Matabele War(1896–97)
• 5th Dragoon Guards (1897)
• Inspector General of Cavalry (1903)
Battles/wars Anglo-Ashanti Wars
Second Matabele War
Siege of Mafeking
Second Boer War

Awards • Ashanti Star (1895)[1]
• Matabele Campaign, British South Africa Company Medal (1896)
• King's South Africa Medal ( 1902)
• The Boy Scouts Association Silver Wolf
• Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award (1926)[2]
• Boy Scouts International Committee Bronze Wolf (1935)[3]
• Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog, Denmark (1921)
• Großes Dankabzeichen des ÖPB (1927)
• Großes Ehrenzeichen der Republik am Bande (1931)
• Goldene Gemse (1931)
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau (1932)
• Member of the Order of Merit(1937)
• Wateler Peace Prize (1937)
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
• Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath