{{Short description|British politician and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} [[File:No-nb bldsa 1c056 George Baden-Powell (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|George Baden-Powell]] '''Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (24 December 1847 – 20 November 1898),<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159</ref> was a son of the mathematician [[Baden Powell (mathematician)|Baden Powell]]. He served as a commissioner in [[Victoria, Australia]], the [[West Indies]], [[Malta]] and [[Canada]].<ref> {{cite ODNB|title=Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22648|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22648|last1=Rubinstein|first1=W. D.}} </ref>
==Birth== His father was the Reverend Professor [[Baden Powell (mathematician)|Baden Powell]], who held the [[Savilian Professor of Geometry|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 [[William Henry Smyth]] and his wife [[Eliza Anne "Annarella" Warington|Annarella]].<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159</ref>
==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.<ref>{{alox2|title=Powell, (Sir) George Smyth Baden-}}</ref>
==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 Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP for [[Liverpool Kirkdale (UK Parliament constituency)|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.<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159</ref><ref>"Baden-Powell" by Tim Jeal(Hutchinson, 1989, p. 156)</ref> 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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/|title=FreeBMD Home Page|website=www.freebmd.org.uk}}</ref>
==Exploration== In 1896 he took his yacht ''Otaria'' to the island of [[Novaya Zemlya]] in the [[Arctic]] to observe that year's [[total solar eclipse]].<ref> {{citation|title=Total Eclipse of the sun, 1896 - The Novaya-Zemlya observations|author=Sir George Baden-Powell|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|volume=190|year=1897|pages=197–204|jstor=90728|doi=10.1098/rsta.1897.0019 |bibcode=1897RSPTA.190..197B|doi-access=free}} </ref> On his return to [[Vardø (town)|Vardø]], [[Norway]], he met his friend [[Fritjof Nansen]] who had just returned from his [[Nansen's Fram expedition|three-year drift and trek]] across the [[Arctic]]. George, having intended to start a search for Nansen, put his yacht at Nansen's disposal to search for Nansen's ship, the ''[[Fram (ship)|Fram]]'', but they had only reached [[Hammerfest]] (300 miles West along the Northern Norwegian coast) when the news reached them that the Fram had also arrived back in Norway.<ref> {{citation|title=Farthest North|author=Fritjof Nansen|volume=2|year=1897|page=586}} </ref>
==Publications== *{{citation|title=New Homes for the Old Country|author=George Baden-Powell|year=1872}} *{{citation|title=State Aid and State Interference|author=George Baden-Powell|year=1882|url=https://archive.org/details/stateaidandstat00powegoog}} *{{citation|title=The Truth about Home Rule|editor=George Baden-Powell|year=1888|publisher=W. Blackwood|url=https://archive.org/details/truthabouthomer00powgoog}}
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== External links == *{{Commons category-inline}} * {{hansard-contribs | sir-george-baden-powell | George Baden-Powell }} *[https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_GBP Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (1847-98), MP] {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-new | constituency}} {{s-ttl | title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Liverpool Kirkdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Kirkdale]] | years = [[1885 United Kingdom general election|1885]] – [[1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election|1898]] }} {{s-aft | after = [[David MacIver]] }} {{s-end}}
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