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Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somer-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, on 20th March 1887. He was educated at Mulgrave Castle, Charterhouse and New College, Oxford. He joined the 1st Life Guards, but cut short his Army career to farm in Canada. With the outbreak of war in 1914, he returned to rejoin his Regiment and was subsequently attached to the Tank Corps. He retired from the Army in 1924, having become actively interested in Scouting two years previously. In 1926, Lord Somers was appointed Governor of Victoria, Australia, and State Chief Scout. He led the 8,000 British Scouts to the World Jamboree in Holland in 1937. During the following winter he travelled the country visiting Scouts and talking at Scout conferences.
Title
Lord Somers (1887–1944), KCMG, DSO, MC, as Chief Scout
Date
1944
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 100 x W 76 cm
Accession number
TSA/12b
Acquisition method
commissioned
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Oswald Birley, 1944