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Granville Walton, OBE, CMG (1888-1974) served as

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Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts and, later, was Assistant Chief Scout to the Association's

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, foun ...

Early life

Walton was born in the Strand district on 19 March 1888 into a family of soldiers. His father was

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Career

He rose to the rank of Colonel. He was awarded the

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. In 1948 he was nominated for Sheriff in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and gained the ward in 1949. In 1953 he was awarded the

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Scouts

He devoted himself to Scouting. From the early 1920s he was secretary to The Boy Scouts Association. He was in charge of The Boy Scouts Association Headquarters Overseas Department and its overseas branches in the

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s and

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and as such was responsible for contacts with the governments and travelled very often. The Boy Scouts Association encouraged its branches to seek control of the

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by obtaining statutory monopolies from respective governments.Robert Campbell (1996) ''Mount Morgan "Blue" Boy Scouts'', - http://www.netpages.free-online.co.uk/sha/governor.htm This was the major purpose of the visits by Overseas Commissioners Walton and

Alfred Pickford Sir Alfred Donald "Pickle" Pickford OBE (20 May 1872 – 7 October 1947) was an English businessman who made his wealth from jute in British India and was a Boy Scouts Association official. Pickford was nominated as Sheriff of Calcutta i ...

in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1955, Walton was awarded the ''

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'', the only distinction of the

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, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. at the 15th World Scout Conference.

Other work

He resided at Longworth Manor near

Abingdon-on-Thames Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historic counties of England, Historically the ...

until his death and was on the governing body of

Abingdon School Abingdon School is a day and boarding independent school for boys in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The twentieth oldest independent British school, it celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2006. The school was described as "highly ...

from 1944-1947.

References

;Sources *Dr. László Nagy, ''250 Million Scouts'', The

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and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981 *''Scouting Round the World'', John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 79, 91, 271

External links

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