Baden Powell (mathematician)

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) 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.

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