Statue: Baden-Powell statue
Erection date: 1961
Inscription
{Plaque on front of plinth:} Robert First Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell O.M., 1857-1941, founder of the Boy Scout Movement.
{Left of plinth:} 19 DP 61
Unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester, President of the Scout Association, and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we also see a plaque inside the building being unveiled by the Queen.
Statues are seldom carved in granite (a very hard stone). Another one is William IV in Greenwich.
Site: Baden-Powell statue (1 memorial)
SW7, Queen's Gate, 65-67
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