Baden Henry Powell


Baden Henry Powell, latterly known as Baden Henry Baden-Powell and affectionately just called Henry or Harry, CIE FRSE 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 Commander 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. They had been 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. In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Jameson, Hugh Cleghorn, James Sanderson and John Hutton Balfour.
In 1886 he became the Chief Court Judge for Lahore, serving until 1889. He also became the vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab.
Powell was artistic, like his half-brother Frank Baden-Powell and many others in the family. Several watercolours and a collection of drawings titled An Album of Views of India including Ceylon, the Himalayas, Agra, Benares, Barrackpore, Calcutta and Chandranagore and a number of views of the Middle East with drawings from September 1861 to 26 October 1869 have been sold at auctions.

Books

Powell was a writer upon Indian law and land tenure and his works include:
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1883, and retired in 1889.
Powell died on 2 January 1901 at age 59; he did not marry, nor have issue. His remains lie in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford.