Baden Powell Scientist
Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS (22 August 1796 – 11 June 1860) was an English mathematician and Church of England priest. He was also prominent as a liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell married three times, and had fourteen children in total: Warington was a naval officer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a King's Councillor; George was a politician; Frank was an artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy; Robert was the founder of the Scouting movement; Baden was an aviator; Agnes was the founder of the Girl Guides.↑
