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Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), Major-General and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides

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Lieutenant-General and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides; took part in Zululand (1888) Ashanti and Matabeleland (1896) campaigns in South Africa; during Boer War held Mafeking during siege of 217 days until relieved; retired from army 1910 in order to devote himself to the Boy Scout movement which the publication of his Scouting for Boys, 1908, had initiated.

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