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Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, (1857-1941), 1st Baron Baden Powell, General and Chief Scout

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Surname: Baden-Powell
Forenames: Robert Stephenson Smyth
Gender: Male
Date: 1857-1941
Title: 1st Baron Baden Powell
Biography: ODNB link for Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- (1857-1941) 1st Baron Baden Powell, General Chief Scout
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P136636 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P1130 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1899-1907: staff diaries and misc papers
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
6411/1, 6810/42
NRA 18644 Baden-Powell
2
1876-1937: corresp and papers
Mercers' Company Archives
LBP
NRA 42413 Baden-Powell
3
1899-1900: daily orders issued at Mafeking
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.3342
4
1899-1900: minutes and orders issued at Mafeking
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 46849-50
5
papers rel to siege of Mafeking
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 50255
6
1909-1941: corresp and papers rel to Scouting arranged in files by subject, diaries, record books and sketches
Scout Association Archive
NRA 41172 Scout Association
7
1903-13: letters to Sir JS Ewart
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA(S)0370
NRA 11854
8
1908-31: letters to Sir Edward Garraway
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Afr s 1610
NRA 22526 Garraway
9
corresp with HA Gwynne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Gwynne MSS
See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
10
1898-1933: letters to Lord Hanworth
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng hist c 941-65, d 428-36
NRA 21155 Pollock
11
1910-13: corresp with Lord Hardinge
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Hardinge
NRA 3853
12
1901-40: corresp with Macmillans
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 55252
13
c1900: letters to FI Maxse
West Sussex Record Office
MAXSE
NRA 10619 Maxse
14
1900-09: letters to Earl Roberts
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
7101/23, 8310/155-62
NRA 18656
15
1909-34: corresp with Society of Authors
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 56658
16
1928: letter to Wootton Fitzpaine Scout Troop
Dorset History Centre
D1625