Michael Baden-Powell

David Michael Baden-Powell (born 11 December 1940) is the heir presumptive to the Barony of Baden-Powell and the Baronetcy of Bentley. As the grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, Baden-Powell is also an active member of the movement.

Family

Coat of arms of the Baron Baden-Powell

Baden-Powell is the great-grandson of Baden Powell, the grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, the great-nephew of Agnes Baden-Powell, Baden Baden-Powell, and Warington Baden-Powell, the nephew of Betty Clay, the son of Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and the brother of Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell.

He was educated at Pierrepont School, Frensham, England.^[1] He married Joan Phillips Berryman in 1966.^[1]

Scouting

Michael Baden-Powell, or MBP, is active in the Victorian Branch of the Scouts Australia.^[2][3][4]

On 1 August 2007, Baden-Powell was a guest of the UK Scout Association at the 100th anniversary of the start of the world Scouting movement at Brownsea Island.^[5] During 2007 he was also instrumental in preserving the caravan trailer, presented to his grandfather along with a new Rolls-Royce car, during the 3rd World Scout Jamboree in 1929. The caravan was nicknamed Eccles. The car, nicknamed Jam Roll, was sold after Robert Baden-Powell's death. Jam Roll and Eccles were reunited at Gilwell Park for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007. At this event Michael Baden-Powell, John Ineson, Tony Harvey and Steven Hilditch formed the charitable company "B-P Jam Roll Ltd." with the aim of purchasing and conserving Jam Roll on behalf of Scouting. Paul Moniyhan, then the U.K. Archivist found the car, Jam Roll, and its owner prior to the Jamboree and made the original proposal for consideration to purchase the car back out of private ownership. The Funds have been raised to repay the loan that was used to purchase the car. The charity ownership is the current owner and continues to support the Scouting use of Jam-Roll.^[6][7]

In August 2008 Michael Baden-Powell took part in the 25th World Conference of the International Scout and Guide Fellowship in Vienna.^[8][9]

As of 2015, Baden-Powell is Scouts Victoria's State Commissioner for Special Duties.^[10]

Freemasonry

Baden-Powell was Master of Baden-Powell Lodge no. 488 in Victoria. This Lodge, chartered in 1930, was the first to be named after his grandfather who donated the Volume of Sacred Law in 1931. The lodge was founded by Scouters and has close links to Scouting. He remains an active member.^[2][11][12]

In June 2007, within the Centenary year of Scouting, Baden-Powell addressed Freemasons and Scouts, and non-Masonic Scouters, at meetings of Pioneer Lodge in the County of Derbyshire and Walesby Forest Lodge in the County of Nottinghamshire (both in United Grand Lodge of England, and also both lodge members of the Kindred Lodges Association).^[13]

Arms

Arms of Michael Baden-Powell

Notes Coat of Arms started using the 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. Adopted 1929 Coronet Coronet of a baron. Crest 1st: a Lion passant Or in the paw a broken Tilting Spear in bend proper pendent therefrom by a Riband Gules an Escutcheon resting on a Wreath Sable charged with a Pheon Or (Powell); 2nd: out of a Crown Vallary Or a Demi Lion rampant Gules on the head a like Crown charged on the shoulders with a Cross Patée Argent and supporting with the paws a Sword Erect proper Pommel and Hilt Gold (Baden). Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Per fess Or and Argent a Lion rampant gules between two Tilting Spears erect proper (Powell); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Lion rampant proper on the head a Crown Vallary Or between four Crosses Patée Gules and as many Fleur-de-lis Azure alternately (Baden). Supporters Dexter: an Officer of 13th/18th Hussars in full dress his Sword drawn over his shoulder proper; sinister: a Boy Scout holding a Staff also proper. Motto Ar Nyd Yw Pwyll Pyd Yw (Where there is steadiness, there will be a Powell).

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