Agnes Baden-Powell

Agnes " Azzie " Baden -Powell (* December 16, 1858, † June 2, 1945 ) was the first world leader of the Girl Scouts after its foundation in 1910.

She was the sister of Robert Baden -Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, and was asked by him to organize the Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom ( Girl Guides in the United Kingdom). She founded Rosebuds, later renamed Brownies ( Girl Guides ) for young girls in 1914.

Life

She and her brother Robert were two of ten children. Her father was the Reverend B. Baden- Powell, who was Professor of Geometry at Oxford University in England. Her mother was both a musical and artistic and mathematically and scientifically gifted woman. Agnes married before the age of 36 years and also brought ten children into the world. The family of Baden- Powell was a family of the English upper class, which meant that money was never a problem. Agnes was when she took over the Girl Scouts movement, already over 50 years old.

In April 1910, when there were already 6,000 registered girls in the Boy Scouts, they decided to separate into two groups together with two other girlfriends and her brother Robert, boys and girls. Over the next seven years she wrote based on the book her brother's Scouting for Boys, the "Handbook of the Girl Guides " which also appeared under the title "How Girls can Help to Build Up the Empire" in collaboration with Robert Baden -Powell.

In 1917 she gave the leadership of the Girl Scouts of Olave Baden- Powell, the wife of Sir Robert Baden- Powell, from. However, they remained deputy chairman of the Girl Guides until her death at the age of 86 years.

Works

• Handbook of the Girl Guides, in collaboration with Robert Baden- Powell, 1912
• How Girls can Help to Build Up the Empire, successor book Handbook of the Girl Guides

• Briton
• Person of the Scout Movement
• Born in 1858
• Died in 1945
• Woman
• Robert Baden -Powell