Baden Powell (mathematician)

Baden Powell (mathematician)

Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS (22 August 1796–11 June 1860 Kensington, London) 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. After his death his family changed their surname to Baden-Powell in his memory.

Powell married three times, and had fourteen children in total: Henry was a naval officer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; George was a politician; Robert was the founder of the Scouting movement; Baden was an aviator; Agnes was the founder of the Girlguiding UK. He was the grandfather of Betty Clay and Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and the great-grandfather of Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell and Michael Baden-Powell.