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Robert Baden-Powell

1857–1941Scouting movementModern (1800 – 1950)Person

Robert Baden-Powell was a British Army officer who founded the Scout movement; his handbook Scouting for Boys appeared in 1908. He served as Chief Scout of the World until his death in Kenya in 1941.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Stephenson-Smyth-Baden-Powell-1st-Baron-Baden-Powell

Works

Last message to Scouts

Quotes (1)

“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”
— Robert Baden-Powell, Last message to Scouts (published 1941); checked via Wikiquote, not the original. The sentence as printed begins "Try and leave this world…" (e.g. The Children's Newspaper, 8 March 1941, and Blassingame, Baden-Powell: Chief Scout of the World, 1966, both seen via Internet Archive full-text search); original manuscript not checked
ProbablesourceMaxim: Leave things better than you found them.