Baden Henry Powell

Baden Henry Powell, latterly (by the 1891 census if not before) known as Baden Henry Baden-Powell, CIE FRSE (born 23 August 1841 - died 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 Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1883. He wrote on a variety of topics including land tenure, forest conservation and law. Life Baden Henry Powell was the second child and the eldest son of the Reverend Professor Baden Powell by his second wife, Charlotte Pope, who died on 14 October 1844. His parents were 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.