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Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, was born 30
October 1913. Peter married Carine Crause-Boardman, daughter of Clement
Hamilton Crause-Boardman, in 1936,
and had two sons and a daughter:
Robert Crause,
born 1936
David
Michael, born 1940
Wendy Dorothy, born 1944
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Peter & BP at home 1923
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1932
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Peter Baden-Powell was, like his father, educated in
Charterhouse
School, Godalming, Surrey, England
and at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire.
He served in the British South
African Police between 1934 and 1937. He was in the Native Affairs
Department, Southern
Rhodesia between 1937 and 1945. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron
Baden-Powell, of Gilwell,
Essex on 8
January 1941. He was invested as a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts. He died in 1962 aged 49, and was succeeded by his
son Robert
Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell. |
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1940 Peter and his wife Carine and son Robert
from World Adventure
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Peter Baden-Powell 1913 - 1963
It is no easy task to be the only son of a famous father, and as one
who had known Peter Baden-Powell from early infancy I had often wondered
what would be his reaction to the total Scout/Guide atmosphere by which he
was surrounded. So perhaps I had more cause than most people to rejoice
when, a few months ago, the Boy Scouts Association conferred upon him
their highest honour for outstanding work for Scouting - the Silver Wolf.
From delicate babyhood Peter grew into a fine healthy specimen of
manhood, capable of roughing it in the wilder parts of Southern Rhodesia,
where he served first in the Mounted Police and later in the Colonial
Administrative Service. His letters to me at that time spoke always of
work with Scouts and Rovers in his spare time, and later of his happy
marriage to Carine Boardman and his joyous family life with their three
children.
When, on his father’s death in 1941, he returned to this country,
Peter bought a house near Farnham, within a few miles of his childhood
home at Pax Hill; and with a name like that he was immediately seized upon
for Scout work both locally and at Headquarters. From his earliest days as
a Wolf Cub to the post which he held at the time of his death of
Guildmaster to the B.-P. Guild he may be said to have given his life to
Scouting. He had other interests of course. He took his seat in the House
of Lords and was a useful member of Committees there. He served as a
Special Constable in East London’s busiest streets; he was a member of
the Mercers?Company, his father’s old City Guild. As a keen and
practised marksman he shot at Bisley for the House of Lords, and he was
always ready to help any worthwhile cause whether local or national.
Peter’s main interests continued to be his family and his Scouts and
what he most regretted in his severe illness was the number of Scout
engagements that had to be cancelled.
To his mother, far away on a Guide tour, and to Carine, his devoted
wife, and their three children, all Guiders will extend their loving
sympathy.
Rose Kerr |
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