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Proposed to merge into Baron Baden-Powell. Noble does not mean notable. There is little if anything notable about this person. Much of the article is actually about his grandfather, the first baron and his family. The notable content of the article could be covered in the article on Baron Baden-Powell. — Preceding comment added by 115.42.5.170 (talk) 07:24, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
After re-organizing the information and editing to make the subject the focus, there appears to be some substance to the article but on critical examination, there is really little of notability that could not be made in a brief entry in the Baron Baden-Powell article. 115.42.6.87 ( talk) 23:27, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
{{short description|British Baron and Scouting leader}} {{Merge to|Baron Baden-Powell|date=January 2022|discuss=Talk:Baron_Baden-Powell#Merge_Robert_Baden-Powell,_3rd_Baron_Baden-Powell}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Use British English|date=January 2014}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|Bio|date=January 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2022}} }} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = [[Baron Baden-Powell|The Lord Baden-Powell]] | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|10|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Johannesburg]], South Africa | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|12|28|1936|10|15|df=y}} | death_place = [[Surrey]], England, United Kingdom }}
Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell (15 October 1936 – 28 December 2019) inherited the peerage on 9 December 1962, upon the death of his father Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell. [1]
He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the elder son of Peter Baden-Powell, later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell and Carine Boardman of Johannesburg, and lived in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) [2]. After his father inherited the peerage, the family moved from Rhodesia to Britain in 1949, when he was 12. He was educated at Bryanston School and played viola in the school orchestra. On 1 August 1963, he married Patience Hélène Mary Batty (27 October 1936 - 18 December 2010), only daughter of Major Douglas Myers Batty, of Melsetter, Southern Rhodesia and Elsie May Loker. They subsequently realized that they had been at primary school together in Southern Rhodesia. He enjoyed swimming, fishing, model making, gardening, bee keeping, badminton and music [3] and kept and bred American Quarter Horses. [4] He died, childless, at home in the early hours of Saturday, 28 December 2019, after a long battle with cancer. [3]
He did National Service in the Royal Navy, became a leading seaman [5], and during the Suez Crisis, served on HMS Bulwark. [6] He then set up a liquor business in Nottingham called "Whisky a Gogo" and spent time as a motor car salesman, wine merchant and public relations officer with the BBC. From 1964 to 1984, he was a local authority finance broker in the City of London. He held directorships -
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Upon marriage, his wife became Lady Baden-Powell and served with many charities, including the YWCA, Girls Alone in London, the National Playbus Association, NSPCC, Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, SPCK, Surrey Council for Voluntary Youth Services, Surrey Antiques Fair, Walton Firs Camp Site, as well as various local and national offices of the Girl Guides, for which she became Commonwealth Chief Commissioner and, latterly, a vice-president. She was a Vice-President of the Scout Association. She also conducted a successful business life and was a director of Imperial Life of Canada, Surrey Radio, and Fieldguard Limited (a family private company). She was appointed a CBE for her services to youth and was a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Surrey. She died childless, of motor neuron disease, in 2010. [1] [9]
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