George Baden-Powell

Education

Balliol College.

Career

After graduating at Balliol College, Oxford, and studying at the Inner Temple, he acted as a commissioner in Victoria, Australia, the West Indies, Malta and Canada. His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Review Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.

In 1896 he took his yacht Otaria to the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic to observe the total solar eclipse of that year.

On his return to Vardø, Norway, he met his friend Fritjof Nansen who had just returned from his three-year drift and trek across the Arctic. Having intended to start a search for him, he put his yacht at Nansen"s disposal and they had only reached Hammerfest when the news arrived that the Fram had also arrived back in Norway.

Works

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  • (State Aid and State Interference: Illustrated by Results in Commerce and Industry ) Author: George Baden-Powell Dec-2011
  • State Aid and State Interference: Illustrated by Results in Commerce and Industry (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century) by George Baden-Powell (2011-10-15)
  • George Baden-Powell: State Aid State Interference : State Illustrated by Results in Commerce and Industry (Classic Reprint) (Paperback); 2015 Edition

Membership

23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament. 25th United Kingdom Parliament.

26th United Kingdom Parliament.

Personality

He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Liverpool Kirkdale from 1885 to 1898.