Following the sudden death of Michael's grandfather, the 1st Lord Baden-Powell, Michael's father Peter, who had been working in Southern Rhodesia since 1935, became the 2nd Lord Baden-Powell, and in 1949, when Michael was 8, the family moved back to England. Michael was educated at Pierrepont School, Frensham, England. After leaving school, Michael worked for Fairey Aviation, until April 1965, when he migrated to Australia.
Family
On 20 August 1966, Michael married Joan Phillips Berryman, daughter of Horace William Berryman. They have three sons.
Scouting
Michael Baden-Powell is active in Scouts Australia's Victorian Branch and, as of 2015, is its Commissioner for Special Duties. On 1 August 2007, Baden-Powell was a guest of The Scout Association of the United Kingdom at the 100th anniversary of the start of the world Scouting movement at Brownsea Island. In August 2008 Michael Baden-Powell took part in the International Scout and Guide Fellowship's 25th World Conference in Vienna. Michael Baden-Powell is patron of Scout Heritage Victoria - a museum and archive of Scout History in Scouts Victoria, starting in that role in 2007 following many years of membership of the group. Scouts Victoria has run three Victorian Agoonoree camps for which Michael has been the chairman, Agoonoree is a major event camp that aims to provide a camping experience to members of Scouts and Guides with special needs and disabilities. The 3rd camp was in 2018 and Michael is part of the team working on the 4th due in 2021.
Philanthropy
In 2007, Michael Baden-Powell was instrumental in preserving a caravan trailer, nicknamed Eccles, which had been presented to his grandparents during the 3rd World Scout Jamboree in 1929. A Rolls-Royce car, nicknamed Jam Roll, which had been presented to his grandparents at the same time, was sold after his grandfather's death in 1941. The car and caravan were reunited at Gilwell Park for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007. Paul Moniyhan, then The Scout Association's archivist, found the car and its owner prior to the Jamboree and made the original proposal to purchase it. Michael Baden-Powell, John Ineson, Tony Harvey and Stephen Hilditch formed the charitable company "B-P Jam Roll Ltd." which obtained a loan and purchased the car. Funds were raised to repay the loan. Baden-Powell was Master of Baden-Powell Lodge No. 488 in Melbourne, Victoria. This Masonic lodge, chartered in 1930, was the first to be named after his grandfather who donated the Volume of Sacred Law in 1931. The lodge was founded by Scouters and has close links to Scouting. He remains an active member. During the Scouting 2007 Centenary, Baden-Powell addressed Freemasons and Scouts, and non-Masonic Scouters, at meetings of Pioneer Lodge in the Derbyshire and Walesby Forest Lodge in the Nottinghamshire. Following a family tradition, Michael is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Mercers.
