Baden Powell (mathematician)

This article is about the Oxford geometer. For his son, the founder of the Boy Scouts, see Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell. For the musician, see Baden Powell de Aquino.

Baden Powell
Born(1796-08-22)22 August 1796
Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, England
Died11 June 1860(1860-06-11) (aged 63)
Kensington, London, England

Baden Powell, MA FRS FRGS (22 August 1796 – 11 June 1860)[1] was an English mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was a prominent liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution.

  1. ^ GRO Register of Deaths: Jun 1860 1a 38 Kensington – Baden Powell, age unknown