Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane | |
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| Born | 16 October 1861 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 10 June 1934 (aged 72) London, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Years of service | 1883-1904, 1914-1916 |
| Rank | Major |
| Unit | Worcester Militia Scots Guards Submarine Mining, RE |
| Commands | Captain in 26th Middlesex Cyclists |
| Battles/wars | Second Boer War Defence at Portobello Barracks in Dublin, Easter Rising |
| Relations | Ancestor: Sir Henry Vane the Elder |
| Other work | Writer; politician; Grand Scoutmaster, British Boy Scouts; founded Italian Scout Movement and Order of World Scouts |
Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet FRGS[1] (16 October 1861 – 10 June 1934) was an Irish-born British Army officer and baronet.[2][3] Francis became the 5th Baronet of Hutton on the death in 1908 of his first cousin, Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet.[3][4]
Fletcher-Vane was an early aide of Robert Baden-Powell and was the Scout Commissioner of London before Baden-Powell ousted him from his Baden-Powell Boy Scouts organisation. Fletcher-Vane later founded the Order of World Scouts, the earliest multinational scouting organisation, and is counted one of the founders of scouting in Italy.
As an army officer, he helped expose the murder of several innocent civilians by an officer under his command during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.[5]
- ^ "First Meeting, 10th November, 1891. Election of Fellows". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. New Series. 13: 731. 1891.
- ^ Obituary in The Times, Sir Francis Vane, 11 June 1934, p.17
- ^ a b "Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/77196. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ A man of courage. accessed 25 September 2008
- ^ Working Class Movement Library: Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, Bt. Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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