Baden Powell (malacologist)
[1] The name Baden, particularly when associated with the surname Powell, became famous in 1900–1901, the year Arthur William Baden Powell was born, because of the siege of Mafeking, the most famous British action in the Second Boer War, which turned the British commander of the besieged, Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero.[2] He was appointed to the Auckland War Memorial Museum as palaeontologist and conchologist in 1929,[2] working on some lesser-known mollusc families.[3][4] From 1932 Powell participated in dredging expeditions on the British research ship Discovery II exploring coastal Northland and discovering large numbers of new species.In 1936, Powell was appointed as the assistant director of Auckland War Memorial Museum, a position he held until he retired in 1968.He also received an honorary DSc in 1956 from the University of New Zealand and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to marine science, in the 1981 New Year Honours.