Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, (known as Peter; 30 October 1913 – 9 December 1962) was the son of

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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 ...

, the founder of

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, and Olave St. Clair Soames. He served with the British South Africa Police in

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, and then in the Southern Rhodesian Civil Service until the end of the Second World War, when he returned to Britain, and became a director of companies, and a Special Constable with the City of London Police.

Family life and work

He was born in

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, the son of

Sir Robert Baden-Powell 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, founder and first Chief Scout of the wor ...

and Olave St. Clair Soames. He attended

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, Surrey, England, like his father. He entered the

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but did not complete the course. He served in the

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(BSAP) in

from 1934 to 1937. He married Carine Crause Boardman (1913 – 14 May 1993), a nurse from Johannesburg, South Africa, on 3 January 1936. Marriage was forbidden by the BSAP terms of service, so he obtained employment in the Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department from 1937 to 1945. He had two sons and a daughter: * Robert Crause Baden-Powell, born 15 October 1936. * David Michael Baden-Powell, born December 1940. * Wendy Dorothy Baden-Powell, born 16 September 1944, unmarried, and lives in

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, Australia. After he inherited the peerage, he returned to Britain in 1945 for eighteen months and then permanently in 1949 and became a company director and a special constable with the City of London Police. He died on 9 December 1962, aged 49 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London after, already suffering Leukaemia, he spent a night in his parents' 1929 caravan in wet and cold conditions at a Gilwell re-union in September 1962 and caught a cold that turned to

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then

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and he suffered a heart attack.

Later career

He was named Arthur after his mother's brother, Robert after his father, and Peter after the eponymous character of the play

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, of whom his father was a fan (likewise, he named his daughter

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after another character in the play). He was: * 1948 - elected a member of the

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. * a Fellow of the

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(R.S.A.). * involved in

. * Guildmaster of The B–P Guild of Old Scouts, until his death. In May 1952 he visited

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, Dorset and opened the new hall of the 1st

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Scouts' who had had been started by some boys from his father's 1907 Brownsea Island experimental camp. He played his father in a pageant on the history of Scouting at the 50th Anniversary World Scout Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield in 1957. He was awarded: * 1957 - Austrian Scouting's * 1957 -

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Arms

Ancestry

References

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British special constables