4th Baron Baden-Powell (1940-2023)
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CBD is saddened to report the death on Sunday night of David Michael Baden-Powell, 4th Baron Baden-Powell – grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the 55-million-strong global Scouts movement – who had been living quietly in Melbourne for many years.
Baden-Powell was born in Zimbabwe in 1940 and moved to Britain after his father inherited the title in 1949 and migrated to Australia in 1965 where he made a career in insurance.
The lifelong scouting enthusiast was honoured for his work for the movement by Scouting associations in Malaysia, Japan and the US. Baden-Powell also served with the Australia Day Council’s Victorian branch and as master of Glen Waverley’s Baden Powell Masonic Lodge.
Baden-Powell had three sons, and the seat of the family title remains in Bleak City, moving across the Yarra to Brunswick where the new Lord Baden-Powell lives.
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BADEN-POWELL , David Michael , Lord. husband of Joan, Father to David, Alex and Myles, Grandfather to Kylah, Charley, Arkie, Rani and Max, Passed Peacefully 3rd July 2023. Service of remembrance at Leonda by the Yarra on Monday 17th July 2023 at 2.00 p.m. - please register for attendance at https://www.eventbrite.com/e
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Lord Baden-Powell, grandson of the founder of the Scouting movement – obituary
A keen Scout himself, he championed his grandfather's legacy and in 2007 oversaw the Scouts’ centenary celebrations on Brownsea Island
The 4th Lord Baden-Powell, who has died aged 82, was an Australian insurance salesman better known as Michael Baden-Powell; he was the grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, hero of the 1899-1900 Siege of Mafeking and founder of the Scouting movement, whose legacy he championed.
Scouting was born in 1907 when Baden-Powell (later the 1st Lord Baden-Powell) set up a camp on Brownsea Island for 20 boys from varying social backgrounds. He wrote of his ideas in Scouting For Boys (1908), leading to the birth of a worldwide movement.
Michael Baden-Powell’s own scouting journey spanned three continents, starting when he was invested as a Cub Scout in Southern Rhodesia. He spent nights in the bush, sleeping in a hut built with his fellow Cubs. “We had to make a proper fireplace, put a fire together, then boil our water in a billy,” he said….
David Michael Baden-Powell was born in Sinoia, Southern Rhodesia (now Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe), on December 11 1940. He was the second of three children of Peter Baden-Powell, who was serving with the British South Africa Police, and Carine (née Boardman), a nurse from Johannesburg. Police regulations meant that Peter and Carine were not permitted to marry – and initially their marriage was not only secret, but so too, as far as was possible, was the birth of their eldest son Robert.
Peter succeeded in the title in 1941 and the family returned to Britain in 1947, where he was active in the House of Lords. Although young Michael never met his illustrious grandfather, he did know his grandmother Olave, who had a grace-and-favour apartment at Hampton Court Palace. He remembered lying alongside her on the floor, studying the 71 voluminous scrapbooks covering his grandfather’s career….
Baden-Powell succeeded to the title after his brother’s death in 2019. He met Joan Berryman, a Cub leader from Melbourne who was on a working holiday in Britain, at the International Scout Club in London in 1963. They were married in Melbourne in August 1966. She survives him with their three sons, the eldest of whom, David, succeeds in the title.
The 4th Lord Baden-Powell, born December 11 1940, died July 3 2023