Warington Baden-Powell

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

Life

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

He was also 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", membership in the "Institute of Naval Architects Council", the "Yacht Racing Association" and the "Athenaeum Club".

Sea scouts

The idea of sea scouting, as the first specialized branch of the scout movement, came from Robert Baden-Powell, who was ten years his junior, after the first sea scout camp was held in the summer of 1908 a year after the general scout movement was founded in 1907. Robert asked his brother Warington if he could put his idea into practice.

Warington Baden-Powell, who himself was an avid sailor and worked as an attorney for the British Admiralty, took on this task and the first official Sea Scouting Organization was founded in England in 1910. Warington Baden-Powell soon wrote the official Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys manual . The manual sold well and the line of work grew.

In 1912 the branch of work was officially introduced in the British Scout Association after numerous sea scout groups had been spontaneously founded by young people. In the following years, further groups arose on all continents, which joined the national scout associations.

This work on young people did not let him go until his death at the age of 74, so that countless sea scouts came to his funeral.

Canoeing

Warington Baden-Powell was an early member and supporter of the Royal Canoe Club, which he joined in 1874. He developed the canoe as a special type of sailing ship , and by the late 1870s, sailing canoes took part in organized races, allowing daring beginners to take part in an expensive sport of the higher-income earners for little money. Thus he is considered to be the developer of canoe sailing , the first regatta of which took place in England in 1882 .

Works

Canoe Traveling: 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

Individual evidence

^ John Sainty, A List Of English Law Officers, King's Counsel and Holders Of Patents Of Precedence . Selden Society Supplementary Series Vol. 7. Selden Society, London 1987, pp. 151 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baden-Powell, Warington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henry Warington; Henry Warington Smyth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Crown attorney; Founder of the Sea Scouts
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1847
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1921

[1] John Sainty, A List Of English Law Officers, King's Counsel and Holders Of Patents Of Precedence . Selden Society Supplementary Series Vol. 7. Selden Society, London 1987, pp. 151 .