Sir Percy Winn Everett (22 April 1870 – 23 February 1952) was an English
editor
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, a ...
-in-chief for the publisher
C. Arthur Pearson Limited and a
Scouter who became
The Boy Scouts Association
The Scout Association is the largest organisation in the Scout Movement in the Scouting in the United Kingdom, United Kingdom. Following the rapid development of the Scouting, Scout Movement from 1907, The Scout Association was formed in 1910 ...
's Deputy
Chief Scout.
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Personal life
Born on 22 April 1870 in
Rushmere, Ipswich, 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
South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was once known in Roman Britain, Roman times as ''Arbeia'' and as ''Caer Urfa'' by the Early Middle Ag ...
on 23 April 1896. The couple had a daughter, Geraldine "Winn" Everett (1903–1998), who became a prominent physician in Elstree. Her godfather was the notable English journalist, writer and editor,
Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (22 August 1870 – 21 January 1907) was an English sportsperson, sportsman, journalist, editor, author and Liberal Unionist Party activist. During his life-time, he wrote at least three hundred items, including a ser ...
.
Everett died in
Elstree on 23 February 1952.
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. He became the first
Scoutmaster of the 1st Elstree Scouts on 13 March 1908.
In 1919, he organized the first
Wood Badge leadership training in
Gilwell Park
Gilwell Park is The Scout Association's principal camp site and Scout Activity Centre, activity centre in the United Kingdom. It is a site, located in Essex in the Sewardstonebury area of Waltham Abbey within Epping Forest near the border with ...
. 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. He was knighted in 1930, "For services in connection with the Boy Scouts and
Girl Guides
Girl Guides (or Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) are organisations within the Scout Movement originally and largely still for girls and women only. The Girl Guides began in 1910 with the formation of Girlguiding, The ...
Movement".
[The London Gazette
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Everett was Hon. secretary of the
, the movement's highest adult honour, in 1921.