Percy Everett

Who is Percy Everett?

Sir Percy Winn Everett was an editor-in-chief for the house of Pearson and an active Scouter who became the Deputy Chief Scout of Great Britain.

Everett first met general R.S.S Baden-Powell in 1906. He was assigned by Arthur Pearson to support Baden-Powell in writing Scouting for Boys, published in 1908, among others by participating for a day in the Brownsea Island Scout camp the year before.

Everett, already well involved in Scouting and living in Elstree, became the first Scoutmaster of the 1st Elstree Scout group on 13 March 1908

On 6 February 1903, Everett had a daughter called Geraldine Winn Everett. Her Godfather was the noted English journalist and writer, Bertram Fletcher Robinson. "Winn" became a prominent physician in Elstree where she died on 21 January 1998 aged 94 years.

In 1919, Everett organized the first Wood Badge leadership training in Gilwell Park.

In 1930, Everett was knighted for his service to scouting.

In 1948, Everett wrote The First Ten Years, published by the East Anglian Daily Times, about the first ten years of Scouting.