Percy Everett

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Percy Everett
Born
Percy Winn Everett

(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 forDeputy Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association
Spouse
Sarah Cay
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(m. 1896)​
ChildrenGeraldine Winn Everett
Parent(s)Robert Lacey Everett and Elizabeth Nussey

Sir Percy Winn Everett (22 April 1870 – 23 February 1952) was an English editor-in-chief for the publisher C. Arthur Pearson Limited and a Scouter who became The Boy Scouts Association's Deputy Chief Scout.[1]

Personal life

Born on 22 April 1870 in Rushmere, Ipswich,[2] Everett was the third of the eight children of parents Robert Lacey Everett (1833-1916) and Elizabeth Nussey (b. 1840).

Everett married Sarah Cay (b. 1872) in St. Hilda South Shields on 23 April 1896.[3] The couple had a daughter, Geraldine "Winn" Everett (1903–1998), who became a prominent physician in Elstree.[4] Her godfather was the notable English journalist, writer and editor, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.[5][6]

Everett died in Elstree on 23 February 1952.[7]

Boy Scouts

In 1906, Everett was assigned by Arthur Pearson to support Robert Baden-Powell in publishing Scouting for Boys. He helped organize and participated for a day in the Brownsea Island Scout camp in 1907 and organized much of the promotion around the launch of the book and Boy Scout scheme.[8] He became the first Scoutmaster of the 1st Elstree Scouts on 13 March 1908.[9]

In 1919, he organized the first Wood Badge leadership training in Gilwell Park. The Boy Scouts Association conferred a six-bead Wood Badge on Everett, which, in 1948, he passed to Gilwell Park's Camp Chief John Thurman, to be worn by successive leader trainers.[10] He was knighted in 1930, "For services in connection with the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Movement".[1]: 104 [11]

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

Girl Guides

Everett was Hon. secretary of the Girl Guides Association and was awarded the Silver Fish Award, the movement's highest adult honour, in 1921.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b 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).
  2. ^ Who's Who, Volume 61, A. & C. Black, 1909.
  3. ^ FreeBMD.com.
  4. ^ "Village Mourns For A 'Very Special Doctor'". Borehamwood & Elstree Times. 1 January 2000. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  5. ^ The Sherlock Holmes Journal vol. 29, #2 (Summer 2009), p. 49. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ "B. Fletcher Robinson Chronology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  7. ^ Thain, Bruce (23 February 2012). "Tributes paid to Scouting pioneer Sir Percy Everett at Elstree Church". Borehamwood & Elstree Times. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  8. ^ "The first Deputy Chief Scout. B-P's 'Right-hand'". Scouting Milestones. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2007.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "The origins of the Wood Badge" (PDF). The Scout Association. August 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
  11. ^ "Supplement To The London Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. 3 June 1930. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Awards". The Guider (Vol. VIII No. 90 ed.). London, UK: Girl Guides Association. June 1921. p. 94.


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