Baden Powell
1796–1860
Clergyman and writer. Wrote on optics and theological topics; active in university reform. Vicar of Plumstead, Kent, 1821–7. Savilian Professor of geometry at Oxford University, 1827–60. Author of an article on the study of the evidences of Christianity in Essays and reviews (1860). FRS 1824.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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