A statue of

Robert Baden-Powell Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with ...

, founder of

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, is installed on the Quay in

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

harbour,

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

on the south coast of England. The statue, erected in 2008, is a life-size

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

by sculptor

David Annand David Annand MRSS (born 1948) is a Scottish sculptor. Education Annand studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the city of Dundee. He taught in secondary schools for fourteen years. Art Annand lives and works in Kilmany in t ...

. It portrays Baden-Powell in his

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uniform, seated on a log as if for a

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, with a pair of log seats either side which "allow easy access for photo opportunities".

History

The memorial was unveiled on 13 August 2008, facing

Brownsea Island Brownsea Island is the largest of the islands in Poole Harbour in the county of Dorset, England. The island is owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust with the northern half managed by the Do ...

. The island was the site of Baden-Powell's first camp in 1907 which is seen as the start of the Scout and Guide movement. In June 2020, the memorial appeared on a list of targets by protesters assoicated with the

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in Britain.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, which styles itself BCP Council, is the Local government in England, local authority for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Th ...

planned to move it into storage pending discussion about its future, but following an failed attempt by council workers failed to remove the statue on 11 June, a group of local people then surrounded the statue to prevent its removal and protect its removal. The council announced that it would arrange 24 hour security for the statue until either the statue had been removed or the threat had passed. On 12 June the statue was boarded up by the council for its protection., however on 8 July the hoarding was removed.

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