Baden Henry Powell

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Baden Henry Powell, latterly (by the 1891 census if not before) known as Baden Henry Baden-Powell, CIE FRSE (born 23 August [1] 1841 - died 2 January 1901), was an English civil servant in Bengal who served as a conservator of forests in Punjab and as a Chief Court Judge. He became an Additional Commissioner at Lahore and was made Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1883. He wrote on a variety of topics including land tenure, forest conservation and law.

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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 St Paul's School, London from 1856. [4] He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1860. He was appointed Conservator of Forests, for the Punjab after the death of Dr John Lindsay Stewart in 1873.

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 vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab. [6]

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 Indian law and land tenure and his works include:

He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1883, and retired in 1889.

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Gardiner, Rev. Robert Barlow (1884). The Admission registers of St. Paul's School, from 1748 to 1876. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 333.
  5. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN   0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "University of the Punjab: Former Vice Chancellors" . Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  7. ↑ Thierry EHRMANN. "Baden Henry POWELL: Auction sales, auction prices, indices and biography of Baden Henry POWELL". Artprice.com. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Baden Henry Powell (1841-circa 1900)". Christies.com. 25 May 1995. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "Baden Henry Baden-Powell: St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford". Stsepulchres.org.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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