Granville Walton

Lieutenant Colonel Granville Walton
Granville Walton, Robert Baden-Powell and Edmund Godfrey-Faussett
Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts for The Boy Scouts Association

Lieutenant Colonel Granville Walton (1888-1974) served as The Boy Scouts Association Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts and, later, was Assistant Chief Scout to the Association's Chief Scout, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.

Walton was born in England into a family of soldiers. He became a lieutenant-colonel and then retired and devoted himself to Scouting. From the early 1920s he was secretary to The Boy Scouts Association. He was in charge of The Boy Scouts Association Headquarters Overseas Department and its overseas branches in the British Empire Dominions and Colonies and as such was responsible for contacts with the governments and travelled very often. The Boy Scouts Association encouraged its branches to seek control of the Scout Movement by obtaining statutory monopolies from respective governments.^[1] This was the major purpose of the visits by Overseas Commissioners Walton and Alfred Pickford in the 1920s and 1930s.^[1]

In 1955, Walton was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. at the 15th World Scout Conference.^[2]

References

• Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981
• Scouting Round the World, John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 79, 91, 271

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