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	1875-1913: military career papers incl letterbooks, diaries and staff diaries	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	1964-11-1 1964-11-66 1965-01-18 1968-10-42	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