Sir Percy Winn Everett (b. 22 April 1870

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– 23 February 1952

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) was an

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-in-chief for the publisher C. Arthur Pearson Limited and an active

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who became the Deputy

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.T.C. Sharma, 'Scouting As A Cocurricular'', Sarup & Sons, 2003, , , 265 pages
page 17
Everett first met

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in 1906 when assigned by

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to support Baden-Powell in writing ''

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''. Everett participated for a day in the

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in 1907. Everett, already well involved in Scouting and living in

, became the first

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of the 1st Elstree Scout group on 13 March 1908. Everett was married in S. Shields in Q2, 1896. On 6 February 1903, they had a daughter called Geraldine Winn Everett (affectionately referred to as "Winn"). Her godfather was the noted English journalist and writer Bertram Fletcher Robinson. "Winn" became a prominent physician in Elstree where she died on 21 January 1998 aged 94 years. In 1919, Everett organized the first

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leadership training in

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. In 1930, Everett was knighted for his service to scouting. In 1948, Everett wrote ''The First Ten Years'' (88 pages), published by the ''

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'', about the first ten years of

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. Baden-Powell conferred the six-bead

onto Everett, which he passed on in 1948 to Gilwell Park's Camp Chief John Thurman, to be worn as badge of office by the person responsible for leader training.

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