Baden Henry Powell, latterly (by the 1891 census if not before) known as Baden Henry Baden-Powell, CIE

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(born 23 August 1841 - died 2 January 1901), was an English civil servant in

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who served as a conservator of forests in

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and as a Chief Court Judge. He became an Additional Commissioner at

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and was made

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in 1883. He wrote on a variety of topics including

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, 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

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from 1856. He joined the

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in 1860. He was appointed

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, for the Punjab after the death of Dr

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in 1873. In 1874, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers included William Jameson, Hugh Cleghorn, and

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. In 1886 he became the Chief Court Judge for Lahore, serving until 1889. He became the

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of the

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. Powell was artistic, like his half-brother,

Frank Baden-Powell Lieutenant Francis Smyth Baden-Powell (29 July 1850 – 1933) was a British barrister, military officer and painter. Early life and education Frank Baden-Powell was born on 29 July 1850, the third son of the Rev. Professor Baden Powell and his ...

, 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 The legal system of India consists of civil law, common law, customary law, religious law and corporate law within the legal framework inherited from the colonial era and various legislation first introduced by the British are still in eff ...

and land tenure and his works include: * ''Administration of land revenue & tenure in British India'' *
Hand-book of the economic products of the Punjab, with a combined index and glossary of technical vernacular words ... Prepared under the orders of government
'. 1868 * ''Punjab. Forest Department rom old catalogDistrict and canal arboriculture, 1876-7''.
A Manual of the Land Revenue System and Land Tenures of British India
1882
A manual of jurisprudence for forest officers
(1882) * ''Land-systems of British India; being a manual of the land-tenures and of the systems of land-revenue administration prevalent in the several provinces''. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892
Volume 1Volume 2Volume 3
*
Indian village community : examined with reference to the physical, ethnographic, and historical conditions of the provinces ...
' 1896 *
Origin and growth of village communities in India
'. London, S. Sonnenschein; New York, Scribner, 1899
first edition
. He was made a

(CIE) 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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Henry Baden Henry Indian Civil Service (British India) officers British India judges Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire People educated at St Paul's School, London Vice-chancellors of the University of the Punjab 1841 births 1901 deaths Textile historians