Percy Everett
{{Short description|Scouting leader and editor (1870–1953)}}
{{For|the architect in Victoria, Australia|Percy Edgar Everett}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name = Percy Everett
| image = Percy Everett in 1936.jpg
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| caption = Everett in 1936
| birth_name = Percy Winn Everett
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|04|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rushmere, Ipswich, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|02|23|1870|04|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Elstree, England
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| nationality = British
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| employer = C. Arthur Pearson Limited
| occupation = Editor
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| known_for = Deputy Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association
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| spouse = {{married|Sarah Cay|1896}}
| children = Geraldine Winn Everett
| parents = Robert Lacey Everett and Elizabeth Nussey
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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.T. C. Sharma, Scouting As A Cocurricular, Sarup & Sons, 2003, {{ISBN|81-7625-351-0}}, {{ISBN|978-81-7625-351-2}}, 265 pages ([https://books.google.com/books?id=CAFrYgcM3JwC&dq=%22Deputy+Chief+Scout.%22+%22Percy+Everett%22&pg=PA17 page 17]).
Personal life
Born on 22 April 1870 in Rushmere, Ipswich,Who's Who, Volume 61, A. & C. Black, 1909. 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's Church, South Shields on 23 April 1896.[https://www.freebmd.org.uk FreeBMD.com]. The couple had a daughter, Geraldine "Winn" Everett (1903–1998), who became a prominent physician in Elstree.{{cite web|url= https://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/58235.village-mourns-for-a-very-special-doctor/ |title= Village Mourns For A ‘Very Special Doctor'|newspaper=Borehamwood & Elstree Times |date=1 January 2000 |access-date=16 November 2024}} Her godfather was the notable English journalist, writer and editor, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.The Sherlock Holmes Journal vol. 29, #2 (Summer 2009), p. 49. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714184315/http://sherlockholmes.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=903618%3APhoto%3A14502 Archived at the Wayback Machine.]{{cite web|url= http://bfronline.info/images/pdf/bfr_chronology.pdf |title=B. Fletcher Robinson Chronology |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724142459/http://bfronline.info/images/pdf/bfr_chronology.pdf |access-date=16 February 2024|archive-date=24 July 2013 }}
Everett died in Elstree on 23 February 1952.{{cite web|url=https://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/9550242.tributes-paid-to-scouting-pioneer-sir-percy-everett-at-elstree-church/|title=Tributes paid to Scouting pioneer Sir Percy Everett at Elstree Church|date=23 February 2012|first=Bruce|last=Thain|work=Borehamwood & Elstree Times|access-date=25 November 2024}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/biogs-c-e.htm |access-date=2007-02-03 |title=The first Deputy Chief Scout. B-P's 'Right-hand' |publisher=Scouting Milestones |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621054427/http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/biogs-c-e.htm |archivedate=June 21, 2006 }} He became the first Scoutmaster of the 1st Elstree Scouts on 13 March 1908.{{cite web | url = http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1148104.mostviewed.be_prepared_for_100_years.php | title = Be prepared... for 100 years | first = Emma | last = Hutchings | publisher = Borehamwood and Elstree Times | date = 2007-01-25 | access-date = 2007-02-04 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070208041924/http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1148104.mostviewed.be_prepared_for_100_years.php | archivedate = 2007-02-08 }}
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.{{cite web | url = http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/facts/pdfs/fs145001.pdf | title = The origins of the Wood Badge | publisher = The Scout Association | date = August 2003 | access-date = 2007-02-04}} He was knighted in 1930, "For services in connection with the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Movement".{{rp|104}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33611/supplement/3474 |title=Supplement To The London Gazette |website= www.thegazette.co.uk|date=3 June 1930 |access-date=18 November 2024}}
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.{{cite magazine |date=June 1921 |author= |title=Awards |magazine=The Guider |location=London, UK |edition=Vol. VIII No. 90 |publisher=Girl Guides Association |page=94}}
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