# George Baden-Powell

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British politician and author

George Baden-Powell

**Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell**, [KCMG](/source/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George) (24 December 1847 – 20 November 1898),[1] was a son of the mathematician [Baden Powell](/source/Baden_Powell_(mathematician)). He served as a commissioner in [Victoria, Australia](/source/Victoria%2C_Australia), the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies), [Malta](/source/Malta) and [Canada](/source/Canada).[2]

## Birth

His father was the Reverend Professor [Baden Powell](/source/Baden_Powell_(mathematician)), who held the [Savilian Chair of Geometry](/source/Savilian_Professor_of_Geometry) at the [University of Oxford](/source/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](/source/William_Henry_Smyth) and his wife [Annarella](/source/Eliza_Anne_%22Annarella%22_Warington).[3]

## Education

He was educated at [St Paul's School, London](/source/St_Paul's_School%2C_London), and at [Marlborough College](/source/Marlborough_College). He went on to [Balliol College, Oxford](/source/Balliol_College%2C_Oxford) in 1871, and the [Inner Temple](/source/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](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) MP for [Liverpool Kirkdale](/source/Liverpool_Kirkdale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) 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](/source/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 [Novaya Zemlya](/source/Novaya_Zemlya) in the [Arctic](/source/Arctic) to observe that year's [total solar eclipse](/source/Total_solar_eclipse).[8] On his return to [Vardø](/source/Vard%C3%B8_(town)), [Norway](/source/Norway), he met his friend [Fritjof Nansen](/source/Fritjof_Nansen) who had just returned from his [three-year drift and trek](/source/Nansen's_Fram_expedition) across the [Arctic](/source/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](/source/Fram_(ship))*, but they had only reached [Hammerfest](/source/Hammerfest) (300 miles West along the Northern Norwegian coast) when the news reached them that the Fram had also arrived back in Norway.[9]

## Publications

- George Baden-Powell (1872), *New Homes for the Old Country*

- George Baden-Powell (1882), [*State Aid and State Interference*](https://archive.org/details/stateaidandstat00powegoog)

- George Baden-Powell, ed. (1888), [*The Truth about Home Rule*](https://archive.org/details/truthabouthomer00powgoog), W. Blackwood

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Rubinstein, W. D. (2004). ["Dictionary of National Biography"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22648). *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/22648](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F22648). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Foster, Joseph](/source/Joseph_Foster_(genealogist)) (1888–1891). ["Powell, (Sir) George Smyth Baden-"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alumni_Oxonienses:_the_Members_of_the_University_of_Oxford,_1715-1886/Powell,_(Sir)_George_Smyth_Baden-). *[Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886](/source/Alumni_Oxonienses%3A_the_Members_of_the_University_of_Oxford%2C_1715%E2%80%931886)*. Oxford: James Parker – via [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 159

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** "Baden-Powell" by Tim Jeal(Hutchinson, 1989, p. 156)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-auto_7-0)** ["FreeBMD Home Page"](https://www.freebmd.org.uk/). *www.freebmd.org.uk*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Sir George Baden-Powell (1897), "Total Eclipse of the sun, 1896 - The Novaya-Zemlya observations", *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society*, **190**: 197–204, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1897RSPTA.190..197B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1897RSPTA.190..197B), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1098/rsta.1897.0019](https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frsta.1897.0019), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [90728](https://www.jstor.org/stable/90728)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Fritjof Nansen (1897), *Farthest North*, vol. 2, p. 586

## External links

- Media related to [George Baden-Powell](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Baden-Powell) at Wikimedia Commons

- *[Hansard](/source/Hansard)* 1803–2005: [contributions in Parliament by George Baden-Powell](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-george-baden-powell)

- [Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (1847-98), MP](https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_GBP)

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