Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell: Difference between revisions

'''Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]] ([[30 October]] [[1913]] in [[Ewhurst, East Sussex]] – [[9 December]] [[1962]]) was the son of [[Lieutenant-General]] [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell]] (the founder of [[Scouting]]) and [[Olave Baden-Powell|Olave St. Clair Soames]]. He married Carine Crause-Boardman, daughter of Clement Hamilton Crause-Boardman, on [[1936-01-03]], and had two sons and a daughter:  

* [[The Honourable]] David Michael, born [[1940-12-11]], who married Joan Phillips Berryman, and had three children. They moved to live in Australia (Heir to the Barony of Baden-Powell)

* [[The Honourable]] Wendy Dorothy, born [[1944-09-16]], who never married, and moved to live in Australia

Peter Baden-Powell was, like his father, educated in [[Charterhouse School]], [[Godalming]], [[Surrey]], England and at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], Berkshire. He served in the British [[South African Police]] between 1934 and 1937. He was in the Native Affairs Department, Southern Rhodesia between 1937 and 1945. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, of [[Gilwell]], Essex on [[8 January]] 1941. He was invested as a Fellow, [[Royal Society of Arts]] (F.R.S.A.). He died in 1962 aged 49, and was succeeded by his son [[Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd 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>