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	Agnes Baden-Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agnes was older than her brother Robert, and at the time she agreed to take over the Guides, this new experience for girls, she was already in her early 50's.
		When Miss Agnes agreed to sponsor the fledgling Guide movement she became the President, even though this was not official until September 24, 1915 on the granting of a Charter of Incorporation.
		Miss Agnes remained in the office of Vice-President until her death in June 1945 at age 86.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agnes_Baden-Powell (478 words)

	Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baden-Powell was born in 9 Stanhope Street, Paddington in London, England in 1857.
		He was the seventh of eight sons among ten children from the second marriage of Reverend Baden Powell (1796-08-22 – 1860-06-11), a Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford University.
		Subsequently, Robert Baden-Powell was raised by his mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth Powell (1824-09-03 – 1914-10-13), a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baden_Powell (2186 words)

	B-P's Father: Reverend Professor Baden Powell.
		She was born 3 Sep 1824 in 18 Buckingham Gate, London SW1 and married Professor Baden Powell on 10 Mar 1846 in St.
		Powell gave a public lecture on "The present state and future prospects of Mathematics" at the University of Oxford, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831.
		Henry Powell (1809-1867), brother of Baden Powell, was appointed a Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College by the Mercers' Company i July 1865 and served until his passing in 1867.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-father.htm (2145 words)

	Section 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Towards the end of the last century a young man named Robert Baden Powell was deployed at Africa as a British army officer to fight against the Bores of South Africa.
		Young Baden Powell did not forget the ways and means with which he was able to turn ordinary lads into expert individuals for sharing the responsibilities of a highly hazardous operation.
		Baden Powell, the wise man that he was, apprehended that the traditional society of those times might not approve of girls being trained in the same manner as boys and it might take some years for people to shed the age-old inhibitions and customs.
	www.scoutsnguides.com /html/Section2/HGGuiding.htm (353 words)

	Guides Australia - Lady Olave Baden-Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Agnes is the oft-forgotten member of Guiding’s early days, overshadowed by the vivacity of Olave.
		Agnes became President of the Movement and not only wrote the handbook How Girls can Build Up the Empire — the Handbook for Girl Guides in 1912, but inspired and interested her friends in guiding through her own enthusiasm.
		However, Agnes was the perfect asset with her gentle influence, interest in all ‘womanly’ arts, love of flowers, birds, and insects.
	www.olavebadenpowell.org /agnes.htm (628 words)

	Agnes Baden-Powell
		I'm sure each of you have, at sometime, heard of Miss Agnes Baden-Powell who was first involved with organizing Girl Guides on her brother's request following the successful rally at the Crystal Palace.
		To begin the story of Miss Agnes, it is important to understand that she and Lord Baden-Powell were only two of a family of ten.
		Their father was the Reverend Baden Powell who was professor of Geometry at Oxford University in England.
	guidezone.e-guiding.com /lh_agnesbp.htm (678 words)

	How It All Began (A Pea Soup Game)
		The second players in each team are told that their name is "Agnes Baden-Powell", the third players are "Olave Baden-Powell"; and the fourth players are "Boy Scouts".
		Agnes Baden-Powell was very enthusiastic and worked very hard with the Girl Guides.
		You also know that Robert Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell, and his wife, Olave Baden-Powell were the founders of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements.
	guidezone.e-guiding.com /lh_howitall.htm (469 words)

	Baden Powell
		While he was serving in the British Army during the Boer War (1899-1902), he led the defense of Mafikeng for 217 day's against a greatly outnumbered 1,200 Boers.
		This led to the scouting movement, the Boy's Scouts, and he published the manual 'Scouting for Boys' (1908).
		In the beginning of 1912 this movement became known as the Girl Guides in the United States.
	library.thinkquest.org /26852/people/BP.htm (1052 words)

	Sutherland Shire Region Guides
		In England, Guiding began in 1910 after girls had clamoured to become Scouts, and the organisation of a similar association for girls was put in the hands of the Founder's sister, Miss Agnes Baden-Powell.
		Agnes Baden-Powell suggested they might be "Posties" or "the lonely ones", but it was finally settled that they be called Lones.
		This indicates that they are on their own, but does not mean that they are lonely.
	www.ssrguides.org /district.php?sub=Lones (796 words)

	Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places - Smythe & Baden Powell
		She gave her son as a first name her mother's maiden name, Baden, and this name followed through many generations in the POWELL family.
		Baden POWELL (born 1796), and their children, took his first name as a hyphenated surname, and I bear that name as my second name.
		Many POWELLs also bear it, and there is another distantly related family of POWELLs who hyphenated with BADEN following the marriage of a POWELL with a BADEN (not yet included in the Tree from which you quote).
	www.zip.com.au /~lnbdds/home/smythbaden.htm (2135 words)

	Baden-Powell, Scouting, Guiding and Covent Garden
		In September 1908 at Crystal Palace the first big rally was held with some 10,000 Boy Scouts as well as a number of self-organized Girls Scouts attending (Reynolds 1942: 150).
		Baden Powell was approached by some Girl Scouts asking him to do something for them also.
		With the move to Victoria, the Girl Guides were allocated a separate office and Agnes Baden-Powell (Robert’ sister) was asked to form a committee.
	www.infed.org /walking/wa-scout.htm (809 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Lord Baden-Powell's Role in The Girl Guide Movement (UK)
		B-P, as he is affectionately known, is of course, best-known for founding the Scouting movement and, with his sister Agnes, being the co-founder of Girl Guiding.
		Since, at that time of day, it wasn't done for young ladies to participate in activities of the sort the boys were taking part in, Baden-Powell asked his sister Agnes to help him adapt his book on scouting so that girls would be able to use it.
		The Girl Guide movement grew very quickly and Agnes Baden-Powell was made President of the new organisation.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A4888506 (1318 words)

	BookRags: Robert Baden-Powell Biography
		Robert Baden-Powell was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell on February 22, 1857 in his parents' house in London, England.
		His father, Professor H.G. Baden Powell was a vicar and a professor of natural science.
		His mother, Henrietta Smyth, was Professor Baden Powell's third wife.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-baden-powell (1805 words)

	The Daily Screw from The Virtual Corkscrew Museum
		He decided the girls should have their own movement and "The Scheme for Girl Guides" was published in the November, 1909 issue of the Boy Scout Gazette.
		In 1910, Robert asked his sister Agnes to take charge of the movement and in that year, the Girl Guides Association was founded.
		Juliette Gordon Low was living in London and she met Robert and Agnes Baden-Powell.
	www.bullworks.net /daily/03may12g.htm (332 words)

	GSUSA - Walnut Creek, CA Association Page/Thinking Day Activities
		So, Robert Baden-Powell talked and planned with his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell and they decided to start a movement for girls called Girl Guides.
		Agnes Baden-Powell was very keen and worked very hard with Girl Guides.
		Robert Baden-Powelland his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and his wife Olave Baden-Powell were the founders of the movement,and we all think of each other on Thinking Day.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/2763/td-games.htm (826 words)

	BC Girl Guides - About Guides - History
		Agnes Baden-Powell, sister of the founder of Scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, wrote two pamphlets about organizing Guides.
		The first St. Catharines Company was officially registered in London, England on January 11, 1910 by Agnes Baden-Powell and an historic plaque in downtown St. Catharines marks the event.
		Agnes Baden-Powell appointed Lady Pellatt as the first Chief Commissioner for Canada in July, 1912.
	www.bc-girlguides.org /welcometoguiding/history/history.html (460 words)

	Baden Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He won fame during the Boer War as the defender of Mafeking (1899-1900).
		He is best known as the founder of the Boy Scouts (1907) and the Girl Guides(1910- with his sister Agnes).
		He published Scouting for Boys in 1908, founded the Wolf Cubs in 1916, and was acclaimed world chief scout in 1920.
	home.btconnect.com /7thipswich/leaders/badenpowell.html (247 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Baden-Powell, Lord Robert
		Certainly, most of his life was spent in same-sex environments and his deepest emotional commitment was with another man.
		Baden-Powell was born on February 22, 1857 in London to Henrietta Grace Powell and the Reverend Baden Powell, a professor of Geometry at Oxford.
		On September 21, 1869, his mother added Baden to the Powell family name in honor of her late husband.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/baden_powell_r.html (852 words)

	Ensiklopedia :: encyclopedia : Robert Baden-Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pergerakan Pandu Puteri kemudiannya diasaskan pada tahun 1910 di bawah kelolaan saudara perempuan Baden-Powell Agnes Baden-Powell.
		Walaupun dia mampu menjadi Field Marshal, Baden Powell membuat keputusan untuk bersara daripada tentera padatahun 1910 mengikut nasihat Raja Edward VII, yang mencadangkan bahawa lebih baik Baden-Powell berkhidmat kepada negaranya dengan mempromosi pergerakan Pengakap.
		Olave berusia 23, Baden 55, dan mereka berkongsi tarikh lahir.
	www.ensiklopedia.info /Robert_Baden-Powell (952 words)

	Black Narcissus (1947) + Interview with Kathleen Byron
		She trained during the war at the Old Vic, but at the age of 20 was called up and worked in censorship.
		After appearing in a few films for the Crown Film Unit, her agent introduced her to Powell to read for a film he and Emeric Pressburger were producing, Silver Fleet 'He had a disconcerting, habit of staring at you.
		And he said "You can't try and stare me into giving you the part."' But Powell was clearly impressed and followed her career with interest.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /NFT/BN-KB.html (1816 words)

	Guides SA History The Early Years
		They were known as the ‘Baden -Powell Girl Guides’ and continued under supervision from Imperial Headquarters until Guiding, as we know it today, officially started in 1921..
		This Company was founded by Miss Agnes Baden Powell, sister of Lord Baden Powell., three years after the beginning of the world Guide Movement.
		They invented a uniform, consisting of khaki Boy Scout Shirt, the Boy Scout stave and belt, a khaki stitched hat, khaki drill skirt with two patch pockets, brown shoes and stockings.
	www.guidessa.org.au /history/1912.htm (127 words)

	Girl Scouts St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Juliette Gordon Low, a native of Savannah, Georgia, had married an Englishman; at the time that she met the Baden-Powells in 1910, she was a wealthy widow who had survived her increasingly abusive marriage, and now had both energy and funds to spare.
		After a turn at leading a Guides group in Scotland, Low threw herself with gusto into creating an American analogue to the organization, and on returning to Savannah in 1912 formed the first troops in the United States with the eager support of a distant cousin, Nina Anderson Pape, and a naturalist, W. Hoxie.
		Hoxie also collaborated with Low on revising Agnes Baden-Powell's Girl Guides handbook for American consumption, including writing some new chapters on camping and nature lore.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100510 (833 words)

	History
		Juliette became friends with General Sir Robert Baden-Powell (later Lord Baden-Powell) the founder of the Boy Scouts in England in 1911.
		It was through this friendship that Juliette (Daisy) met Baden-Powell’s sister, Miss Agnes Baden-Powell who had been persuaded by her brother to form a society of Girl Guides.
		Daisy and General Sir Robert Baden - Powell (founder of Boy Scouts) were very good friends.
	www.nsa.naples.navy.mil /girlscouts/history.htm (694 words)

	Manila Bulletin Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SCOUTING was started in 1906 by the Englishman Lord Robert Baden Powell.
		His sister Agnes Baden Powell began Girl Scouting in 1909.
		Since then, this movement for boys and girls has spread to many countries in the world.
	www.mb.com.ph /email_to_a_friend.php?id=10378&flnm=http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2004/05/26/OPED2004052610378.html (79 words)

	Girlguiding UK - About Us - History of guiding
		However, Baden-Powell's letters from this time show that he had a scheme for girls in mind.
		In 1910 he formed the Girl Guides, asking his sister Agnes to look after the new organisation.
		A few years later his wife Olave became involved and, in 1918, was appointed Chief Guide.
	www.girlguiding.org.uk /xq/asp/sID.67/qx/new/about/article.asp (468 words)

	The Story of Girl Scouting and World Movement
		The first Girl Guide Company or troop, registered in England on February 6, 1910, was known as "Miss Baden-Powell's Own".
		Agnes Baden-Powell became the first president of the Girl Guide movement, which numbered 8,000 Guides by the end of that year.
		Abut this time, an American woman living in England met Baden-Powell at a social function and became quite interested in his work.
	www.wcgsa.org /TD/TDStoryGS.htm (1377 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is the international governing body of the girl guiding/scouting movement, which comprises the largest international youth organisation for girls and young women.
		Girl Guides was founded as the female version of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts, in 1910 with the assistance of his sister Agnes Baden-Powell.
		While Agnes played a major role until her death, Lord Baden-Powell's wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, became Chief Guide of England in 1918, and World Chief Guide in 1930.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Girl_Guides (360 words)

	LDP More About Us - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Agnes Baden-Powell appointed Lady Pellatt as Canada's first Chief Commissioner.
		"There are no girls in Scouting," said B.P. "Yes there are", replied the girls, "and we're them." B.P. enlisted his sister Agnes to head up the Girl Guides.
		The story goes on to say that Eileen Hodgins brought some pamphlets to the meeting that had been sent by B.P. himself to a Scoutmaster in St. Catharines and so Guiding began in St. Catharines.
	www.niagara.com /~olley/LDP2_LE_01HIS.htm (1478 words)

	Trendz - current issue
		But when weather delays caused the project to open in phases over a two-month period last fall and construction cost overruns...(click to read the whole story)
		The Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) has launched an edgy new campaign to prove why its movement is as relevant today as it was in its beginnings, nearly 100 years ago.Originally founded in England in 1909 after Robert Baden-Powell asked his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell.
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	www.marketingtrendz.net (189 words)

	History/Background
		The Scouting program was begun by Sir Baden Powell in England on January 24, 1908, and established in America with the help of Ernest Thompson Seton.
		Did you know that the Girl Scouts were also began by Sir Baden Powell?
		This was a project in partnership with his sister, Agnes Baden Powell.
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