Books/Writings
Robert Baden-Powell
1857 – 1941
English

Soldier and social organizer. He became well known to the British public for his celebrated defense of Mafeking in South Africa during the Boer War. After his retirement from the military, he founded the Boy Scouts and (with his sister) the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the U.S.). Scouting quickly became an international movement seeking to teach youths good character ("A scout is truthful.") as well as skills and a love of the outdoors.

Contemporaries
1929–2003Bernard Williams
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1914–1981Dame Barbara Ward
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1879–1976Ernest Shepard
1893–1957Dorothy Sayers
1866–1943Beatrix Potter
1900–1969Stephen Potter
1839–1894Walter Pater
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1933–1967Joe Orton
1903–1950George Orwell
1880–1912Lawrence Oates
1834–1896William Morris
1873–1958G. E. Moore
1882–1956A. A. Milne
1802–1876Harriet Martineau
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1792–1866John Keble
1894–1963Aldous Huxley
1820–1903Herbert Spencer
1832–1902G. A. Henty
1912–1990Lawrence Durrell
1804–1881Benjamin Disraeli
1888–1988Archibald Brockway
1847–1933Annie Besant
1910–1989Sir A. J. Ayer
1822–1888Matthew Arnold