Baden Henry Powell
Baden Henry Powell, latterly (by the 1891 census if not before) known as Baden Henry Baden-Powell,
Life
Baden Henry Powell was the second child and the eldest son of the Reverend Professor Baden Powell by his second wife, Charlotte Pope,[2] who died on 14 October 1844. His parents were married on 27 September 1837.[3]
Powell was educated at
In 1874, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers included William Jameson, Hugh Cleghorn, and John Hutton Balfour.[5]
In 1886 he became the Chief Court Judge for Lahore, serving until 1889. He became the
Powell was artistic, like his half-brother, Frank Baden-Powell, and many others in the family. Several watercolours and a collection of drawings, titled An Album of Views of India including Ceylon, the Himalayas, Agra, Benares, Barrackpore, Calcutta and Chandranagore and a number of views of the Middle East with drawings from September 1861 to 26 October 1869, have been sold at auctions.[7][8]
Books
Powell was a writer upon
- Administration of land revenue & tenure in British India
- Hand-book of the economic products of the Punjab, with a combined index and glossary of technical vernacular words ... Prepared under the orders of government. 1868
- Punjab. Forest Department [from old catalog] District and canal arboriculture, 1876-7.
- A Manual of the Land Revenue System and Land Tenures of British India, 1882
- A manual of jurisprudence for forest officers (1882)
- Land-systems of British India; being a manual of the land-tenures and of the systems of land-revenue administration prevalent in the several provinces. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892. Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
- Indian village community : examined with reference to the physical, ethnographic, and historical conditions of the provinces ... 1896
- Origin and growth of village communities in India. London, S. Sonnenschein; New York, Scribner, 1899 (first edition).
He was made a
Powell died on 2 January 1901 at age 59; he did not marry, nor have issue. His remains lie in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford.[9]
References
- ^ "Baden Henry Baden-Powell, C.I.E., born 23 August 1841 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - died 2 January 1901, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England". halhed.com. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "The Powell Pedigree: 500 years of family history Prepared by Robin Baden Clay (6 February, 2001) - including an Ancestor MAP for Rev. Prof. Baden POWELL - part of the homepage on the 1860 publication: "Essays and Reviews" by (Church of England theologians) Temple, Williams, Powell, Wilson, Goodwin, Pattison and Jowett". Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "The Powell Pedigree: 500 years of family history Prepared by Robin Baden Clay (6 February, 2001) - including an Ancestor MAP for Rev. Prof. Baden POWELL - part of the homepage on the 1860 publication: "Essays and Reviews" by (Church of England theologians) Temple, Williams, Powell, Wilson, Goodwin, Pattison and Jowett". Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Gardiner, Rev. Robert Barlow (1884). The Admission registers of St. Paul's School, from 1748 to 1876. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 333.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ "University of the Punjab: Former Vice Chancellors". Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ Thierry EHRMANN. "Baden Henry POWELL: Auction sales, auction prices, indices and biography of Baden Henry POWELL". Artprice.com. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Baden Henry Powell (1841-circa 1900)". Christies.com. 25 May 1995. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Baden Henry Baden-Powell: St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford". Stsepulchres.org.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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