Name Baden Powell | ||
Died 1901, Oxford, United Kingdom | ||
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Baden Henry Powell CIE, always known as Henry, (29 July 1850 - 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 Commander 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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Henry was the second child and the eldest son of the Rev. Prof Baden Powell by his second wife, Charlotte née Pope, who died on 14 October 1844. They had been married on 27 September 1837.
Powell was educated at St Paul's School, London from 1856. 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. He later became the Chief Court Judge for Lahore.
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 Sep 1861 to Oct 26 1869 have been sold at auctions.
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Powell was an eminent 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.