Baden Baden-Powell
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Baden Baden-Powell
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Birth name | Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell |
Born | Kensington, London, England |
22 May 1860
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, FS, FRAS, FRMetS (22 May 1860 – 3 October 1937) was the youngest child of Baden Powell, and the brother of Robert Baden-Powell, Warington Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, Agnes Baden-Powell and Frank Baden-Powell.
His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.
He wrote, "In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891", published in 1892 by R.Bentley and Son, London.[1] Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context.[2][3] He also wrote, "Ballooning as a Sport", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons.[4]
He built his first balloons and aircraft with his elder sister Agnes.
He invented a man-carrying kite system which he called the Levitor.[5] He also developed a collapsible military bicycle.[6]
He was in the Relief Column that relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.
He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.[7]
Scouting
Baden-Powell was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting[8] in the form of kite and model aeroplane building. He can be considered the founder of Air Scouting[8] even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.[9]
Baden-Powell was President and later District Commissioner of a North London District, was District Commissioner of Sevenoaks District, Kent between 1918 and 1935, and was Headquarters Commissioner for Aviation from 1923, until his death in 1937.
Preceded by
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President of the Aeronautical Society 1902 - 1909 |
Succeeded by Edward Purkis Frost |
Notes
- ↑ Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell. 1892. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891. At archive.org.)
- ↑ Hugh Driver. The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain, 1903-1914. page 185 at google books
- ↑ "The Tatler" No. 107, 15 July 1903, page 85
- ↑ Ballooning as a Sport, for sale on eBay UK.
- ↑ Pelham, D.; The Penguin Book of Kites, Penguin 1976
- ↑ http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1901-MILITARY-CYCLING-MAJOR-BADEN-POWELLS-COLLAPSIBLE-BICYCLE-/321445110312?pt=Antiquarian_Books_UK&hash=item4ad79f2228
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, page 'iv' and page 840
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Early History of Air Scouting at scoutguidehistoricalsociety.com
- ↑ (Baden Baden-Powell in Scouter July, 1932)"...it has been suggested that Air Scouts should be organised in the same way as Sea Scouts. "Though the air is 'ever with us', access to aerodromes is not common and though Sea Scouts can mess about 'in any old boat', a Scout is unlikely to be able to get access to an aeroplane, and even if he did he would not be able to fly it. ...it seems hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts', yet a great deal may be accomplished by troops specialising in air-work... I shall always be pleased to give what advice I can."
External links
- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Biography on pinetreeweb
- The Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 1233: Baden Baden-Powell
- Pictures of the High Flying Competition of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1903