Warington Baden-Powell

Henry Warington Smyth Baden -Powell (* February 3, 1847, † April 24, 1921 ) was Attorney-General and founder of the Sea Scouts. He was the eldest brother of Robert Baden -Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement.

Life

In 1857, he graduated from St. Paul 's College. Early in his career he qualified as a " Master Mariner " and became the "Lieutenant " of the Royal Naval Reserve appointed. The interest in small boats made him fascinated canoeists. 1871, at the age of 24, he sailed and paddled in a canoe on the Baltic Sea with stops in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The experience gained, he wrote in his book Canoe Travelling, published in 1871, down. He was admitted to the " Bar in Trinity " in 1876 as a " Barrister of the Inner Temple " and later to " Admiralty Bar ". He became a member of several major organizations with a focus sea. On 24 December 1897 he became the " King's Counsel " (KC ), the Attorney-General, as most asked lawyer in the UK, appointed for male sovereign.

He has also been elected to the Council of the Royal Geographical Society as a " Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society " ( FRGS ). He also had a stake in the " Shipwrights ' Company', the membership in the" Institute of Naval Architects Council, "the " Yacht Racing Association "and the" Athenaeum Club ".

Sea Scouts

The idea of Seepfadfindertums, the first specialized work branch of the Scout Movement, is derived from the ten- years-younger Robert Baden- Powell, after a year after the establishment of the general Scouting already in 1907 performed the first Seepfadfinderlager in the summer of 1908. Robert asked his brother Warington if he could practically implement his idea.

Warington Baden -Powell, who was himself a keen sailor and worked as a lawyer for the British Admiralty, took over this task and already in 1910 the first official Sea Scouting Organization in England was founded. Warington Baden -Powell wrote soon after the official Sea Scout handbook Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys. The manual sold well and the working branch to grow.

1912, the working branch was officially launched in the UK Scout Association, after numerous Sea Scout had been created spontaneously by young people. In the following years, other groups on all continents, who joined the national Scout associations.

This work of young people did not leave him until his death at the age of 74 years, so that appeared to his funeral countless Sea Scouts.

Canoe Sailing

Warington Baden -Powell was an early member and supporter of the Royal Canoe Club, which he joined in 1874. He developed the canoe to the specific type of sailing vessel, and in the late 1870s took sailing canoe race organized in part and allowed daring beginners for very little money on a costly sport of earners participate. Thus he is regarded as the developer of the canoe sailing, the first regatta was held in 1882 in England.

Works

Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes, London; Smith, Elder; 1871
Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys, Glasgow; Brown, Son & Ferguson; 1910

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