Robert Baden-Powell: Difference between revisions

In 1939, he moved to a house he had commissioned in [[Kenya]], a country he had previously visited to recuperate. His house, which he named ''Paxtu'', was located near the famed [[Treetops Hotel]] in [[Nyeri]], on the farm of [[Eric Sherbrooke Walker]], Baden-Powell's first private secretary and one of the first Scout inspectors. It is now a Scouting Museum.

He died on [[January 8]], [[1941]] and is buried in [[Nyeri]], [[Kenya]], near [[Mount Kenya]] (St Peter's Cemetery: {{coor dms|0|25|12.12|S|36|56|50.23|E}}<!--his last resting place-->).<ref name="euroscout"> {{cite web |url = http://www.euro.scout.org/wsrc/fs/bp_e.shtml | title = "B-P" – Chief scout of the world | work = Baden-Powell | publisher = World Organization of the Scout Movement | accessdate = 2006-11-16}}</ref> His gravestone bears a circle with a dot in the centre, which is the trail sign for "Going Home", or "I have gone home": [[Image:Signe-de-piste_fin-de-piste.jpg|20px|I have gone home]] When his wife Olave died, her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband. Kenya has declared Baden-Powell's grave a national monument.<ref name="dualgrave">{{cite web | last = Benson | first = Kit and Morgan | year = 2001 | url = http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1272 | title = Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell | publisher = FindAGrave | accessdate = 2006-11-20}}</ref>

The Baden-Powells had three children &mdash; one son and two daughters, who gained the courtesy titles of [[The Honourable|Honourable]] in 1929. The son later succeeded his father in 1941 to the title of [[Baron Baden-Powell]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book | editor = Charles Mosley (editor) | title = Burke's Peerage and Baronetage | edition = 106th edition | publisher = Burke Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd | location = Crans, Switzerland | year = 1999}}</ref>

* [[Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell|Arthur Robert Peter]], later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913&ndash;1962). He married Carine Crause-Boardman in 1936, and had three children: [[Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Crause]], later 3rd Baron Baden-Powell; [[Michael Baden-Powell|David Michael (Michael)]], current heir to the titles, and Wendy.