Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell (15 October 1936 – 28 December 2019) was the elder son of Carine Boardman and Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and a grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Olave Baden-Powell.
Baden-Powell was born in Johannesburg, Union of 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). 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.
Baden-Powell enjoyed swimming, fishing, model making, gardening, bee keeping, badminton and music and kept and bred American Quarter Horses. He died, childless, at home in the early hours of Saturday, 28 December 2019, after a long battle with cancer, and his title was inherited by his brother, Michael.
He did National Service in the Royal Navy, became a leading seaman, and during the Suez Crisis, served on HMS Bulwark. 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 several directorships:
Founder and chairman, London and Cheshire Insurance Company (1961–1966) (company collapsed 1966)
Director, City Share Trust (1964–1970)
Director, Bolton Building Society (1974–1988)
Managing Director, Fieldguard Limited (family private company) from 1984 until his death.
Director, London board of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society.
Director of a number of unit trusts (now part of F&C) and of other companies.
Scouting & community organisations
1946 – became Wolf Cub in Southern Rhodesia
1959–1962 – Assistant Scout Leader, 100th Nottingham Group
1965–1969 – Group Scout Leader and Venture Scout Leader, 6th Putney Group
leader – Ripley Venture Scout Unit
The Scout Association positions:
1968–1982 – Chief Scout's commissioner