Bust of Major General Robert Baden-Powell, 1900 (c)

Parian ware (biscuit porcelain) sculpted by W C Lawton. Made by Robinson and Leadbetter, Stoke-on-Trent, 1900.

Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and West and South Africa. His most famous military exploit came in 1899, during the Boer War (1899-1902), when he successfully defended the town of Mafeking. He retired as a lieutenant-general in 1910 and spent the rest of his life promoting the Scout movement which he had established in 1907. In 1920 Baden-Powell was acclaimed Chief Scout of the World and was created Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell in 1929.