George Baden-Powell
Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell,
Birth
His father was the Reverend Professor Baden Powell, who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860.
His mother, Henrietta Grace, was the third wife of Baden Powell (the previous two having died). She was the elder daughter of
Education
He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and at Marlborough College. He went on to Balliol College, Oxford in 1871, and the Inner Temple in 1876.[4]
Career
He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.). He was an author on political, financial and colonial topics. He was Conservative MP for Liverpool Kirkdale from 1885 to 1898.
Honours
He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1884. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Conservative) for Liverpool, Kirkdale Division between 1885 and 1898. He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in 1888.
Family
On 8 April 1893 in Cheltenham George married Frances, daughter of Charles Wilson, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.[5][6] They had a daughter, Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell (27 July 1895 – 6 Dec 1981), and a son, Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (1897–1973). Frances died aged 50 in Cheltenham on 29 Oct 1913.[7]
Exploration
In 1896 he took his yacht Otaria to the island of
Publications
- George Baden-Powell (1872), New Homes for the Old Country
- George Baden-Powell (1882), State Aid and State Interference
- George Baden-Powell, ed. (1888), The Truth about Home Rule, W. Blackwood
References
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159
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Rubinstein, W. D. (2004). "Dictionary of National Biography". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22648. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159
- ^ "Baden-Powell" by Tim Jeal(Hutchinson, 1989, p. 156)
- ^ "FreeBMD Home Page". www.freebmd.org.uk.
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Sir George Baden-Powell (1897), "Total Eclipse of the sun, 1896 - The Novaya-Zemlya observations", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 190: 197–204, JSTOR 90728
- ^ Fritjof Nansen (1897), Farthest North, vol. 2, p. 586
External links
- Media related to George Baden-Powell at Wikimedia Commons
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Baden-Powell
- Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (1847-98), MP