George Baden-Powell

George Baden-Powell studied at Balliol College. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Positions recorded include member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom and member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom. Distinctions recorded are Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

His father was the Reverend Professor Baden Powell, who held the 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 Annarella.

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.

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 MP for Liverpool Kirkdale from 1885 to 1898.

On 8 April 1893 in Cheltenham George married Frances, daughter of Charles Wilson, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 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.

In 1896 he took his yacht Otaria to the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic to observe that year's total solar eclipse. On his return to Vardø, Norway, he met his friend Fritjof Nansen who had just returned from his 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, 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.

The authorities additionally record the heading Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell. His recorded language was English. He was the child of Baden Powell and Henrietta Grace Smyth. He married Frances Wilson. 2 children are recorded: Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell and Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell.

Recorded positions include member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom and member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. He worked at London.