Frank Baden-Powell

Francis Smyth Baden-Powell, always known as Frank, (29 July 1850 – 1933) was a British barrister, officer and painter.

Frank Baden-Powell was born on 29 July 1850, the third son of the Rev. Prof Baden Powell and his third wife Henrietta Grace Smyth.

Frank's elder full brothers were Warington Baden-Powell and Sir George Baden-Powell, and he had two younger brothers, Robert Baden-Powell and Baden Baden-Powell, and a younger sister, Agnes Baden-Powell. There was another brother Augustus (May 1849 – March 1863) who died aged 13. His father had had another son, Baden Henry Powell, by his second wife.

After he took Honours at Balliol College, Oxford, Frank was then called to the Bar from the Inner Temple. However, he joined the army and, as Lieutenant Frank Baden-Powell, he was attached to the Camel Corps during the 1st Sudan War (1884–1885). The Camel Corps had been formed for the Gordon Relief Expedition. The Guards detachments of the Corps consisted of 23 officers and 400 men from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Grenadier Guards, 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Coldstream Guards and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Scots Guards.

In 1902, Frank visited Mafeking, South Africa, the scene of his brother Robert's triumph; while there, he paid a call on the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy.

Baden-Powell married on 28 May 1902, at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, Florence (Sidney) Watt, a New Zealander daughter of James Watt, and their 1902 honeymoon was a round-the-world trip. Florence died on 17 October 1914, at 18 Sloane Court, London. Their only child, a son (Robert Harold) "Bobby" Baden-Powell was born on 11 November 1903.

Between 1904 and 1911, they lived at 33-38, Palace Gate, Kensington.; but in 1907 Frank was in South Africa.

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