Baden Baden-Powell

Who was Baden Baden-Powell?

Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, FS, FRAS, FRMetS was the youngest son of Baden Powell, and the brother of Robert Baden-Powell, Warington Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, and Agnes Baden-Powell.

His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell, and was a gifted musician and artist.

Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. He built his first balloons and planes together with his sister Agnes.

He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.