George Baden-Powell

Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell, KCMG (24 December 1847 – 20 November 1898),[1] was a son of the mathematician Baden Powell.

He served as a commissioner in Victoria, Australia, the West Indies, Malta and Canada.

[2] His father was the Reverend Professor Baden Powell, who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860.

His mother, Henrietta Grace, was the third wife of Baden Powell (the previous two having died).

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