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| Birth Name: | Marcus Noel van Raalte | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 22 December 1888 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Kensington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Marcus Noel van Raalte[1] (22 December 1888 – 5 May 1940) was a British racing driver and playboy.
van Raalte's family owned Brownsea Island. When Robert Baden-Powell held (at van Raalte's parents' invitation) the experimental Camp on Brownsea Island, van Raalte was 19 and helped with the Camp. In 1910 Baden-Powell planned to take a Troop of Boy Scouts on a tour of Canada as an introduction to the Scout Movement. van Raalte was one of the party. In 1912, Baden-Powell went on a lecture tour of the U.S.A.; he travelled via the Caribbean on the S.S. Arcadia (and met his wife on the voyage). van Raalte went too, as A.D.C. to Baden-Powell. These two tours introduced van Raalte to North America.[2] [3]
He raced in the 1915 Indianapolis 500 in a Sunbeam, finishing in 10th place.[4] He later owned the first Bentley automobile.[5]
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