Os and Men [ 4 ] intended for the military and The Scout magazine helped the rapid growth of the Scout Movement. In August , he held an experimental camp, the Brownsea Island Scout camp to test his ideas for training boys in scouting.
Arthur Pearson Limited , for boy readership. In , a rally of Scouts was held at The Crystal Palace. Many girls in Scout uniform attended and, in front of the press, a small group told Baden-Powell that they were the "Girl Scouts".
Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri , Kenya , where he died and was buried in His grave is a national monument.
Baden-Powell was the penultimate son of the Rev. After his father died in , his mother, to identify her children with her late husband's fame, styled the family name Baden-Powell. The name was eventually legally changed by Royal Licence on 30 April Baden-Powell's father's family originated in Suffolk. He was called Stephe pronounced "Stevie" by his family. Baden-Powell had four older half-siblings from the second of his father's two previous marriages and was the fifth surviving child of his father's third marriage: [ 17 ].
The three children immediately preceding Baden-Powell had all died very young before he was born, so there was a seven-year gap between him and his next older brother Frank; so he and his two younger siblings were almost like a separate family, of which he was the eldest.
