IN 1906, Robert Baden-Powell, a distinguished officer in the British Army wrote a short guide for boys about reconnaissance and scouting.

The following year he held a camp on Brownsea Island to test some of the tips in his manual. The camp and the subsequent publication of Scouting for Boys were the foundation of the Scout movement which today takes in hundreds of thousands of young people.

But what happened to some of those eager young scouts? Here’s a list of what a few of them did next: 

Sir David Attenborough, naturalist.

David Beckham, footballer.

Tony Blair, former prime minister.

Russell Brand, comedian.

Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur.

Jarvis Cocker, musician.

Billy Connolly, comedian.

Richard Hammond, tv presenter.

Lucie Jones, singer and actress.

James Martin, chef .

Andy Murray, tennis player.

Sir Paul McCartney, musician.

 Jeremy Paxman, journalist.

Keith Richards, musician.

David Walliams, comedian.

Cliff Richard, pop star.

Sir Bobby Robson, Newcastle and England manager.

 

Famous international scouts:

Barack Obama, US President.

Steven Speilberg, film director.

Ban Ki-Moon, secretary general of the United Nations.

Sir Jack Braham, racing driver.

Herge, Belgium cartoonist and creator of Tin Tin.

Jacques Chirac, former president of France.

Marcel Marceau, mime artist.

Vaclav Havel, first president of the Czech Republic.

Sir Bob Geldof, pop star and fund raiser.

 

And here’s one the scouting movement would rather forget:

Colonel Gaddafi, former dictator of Libya.