Percy Everett

Sir Percy Winn Everett (b. 22 April 1870 Rushmere, Ipswich[1] – 23 February 1952 Elstree) was an editor-in-chief for the publisher C. Arthur Pearson Limited and an active Scouter who became the Deputy Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association.[2]

For the architect in Victoria, Australia, see Percy Edgar Everett.

Percy Everett
Born(1870-04-22)22 April 1870
Rushmere, Ipswich, England
Died23 February 1952(1952-02-23) (aged 81)
Elstree, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationEditor
EmployerC. Arthur Pearson Limited
Known forChief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association
ChildrenGeraldine Winn Everett (1903–1998)

Everett first met Robert Baden-Powell in 1906 when assigned by Arthur Pearson to support Baden-Powell in writing Scouting for Boys. Everett participated for a day in the Brownsea Island Scout camp in 1907.[3]

Everett, already well involved in Scouting and living in Elstree, became the first Scoutmaster of the 1st Elstree Scout group on 13 March 1908.[4]

Everett was married in S. Shields in Q2, 1896.[5] On 6 February 1903, they had a daughter called Geraldine Winn Everett (affectionately referred to as "Winn"). 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 old.[6][7]

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

In 1930, Everett was knighted for his service to scouting.[2]: 104 

In 1948, Everett wrote The First Ten Years (88 pages), published by the East Anglian Daily Times, about the first ten years of Scouting.

Baden-Powell conferred the six-bead Wood Badge onto Everett, which he passed on in 1948 to Gilwell Park's Camp Chief John Thurman, to be worn as badge of office by the person responsible for leader training.[8]

See also

References
  1. Who's Who, Volume 61, A. & C. Black, 1909.
  2. T. C. Sharma, Scouting As A Cocurricular, Sarup & Sons, 2003, ISBN 81-7625-351-0, ISBN 978-81-7625-351-2, 265 pages (page 17).
  3. "The first Deputy Chief Scout. B-P's 'Right-hand'". Scouting Milestones. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2007.
  4. Hutchings, Emma (25 January 2007). "Be prepared... for 100 years". Borehamwood and Elstree Times. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
  5. FreeBMD.com.
  6. . Archived 2007-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
  7. The Sherlock Holmes Journal vol. 29, #2 (Summer 2009), p. 49. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
  8. "The origins of the Wood Badge" (PDF). The Scout Association. August 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2007.


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