Nationality British Role Historian Name F. Powicke | Term 1928–1947 Occupation Historian | |
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Full Name Frederick Maurice Powicke Born 16 June 1879 ( 1879-06-16 ) Alnwick, England Alma mater Owens College, Manchester Known for Works on English medieval history Predecessor Henry William Carless Davis Died May 19, 1963, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, United Kingdom Titles Regius Professor of History Books The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 Education Victoria University of Manchester, Balliol College Similar People Hastings Rashdall, Michael Prestwich, Frank Stenton, May McKisack, A J P Taylor | ||
Successor Vivian Hunter Galbraith | ||
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke (16 June 1879 – 19 May 1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
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Life
The son of Frederick James Powicke, a Congregational minister and historian of seventeenth-century puritanism, Powicke was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he took his first degree, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took another with First Class Honours.
From 1908 to 1915 he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, although in 1909 he was appointed as Professor of Modern History in the Queen's University, Belfast, where he remained for ten years. From 1919 to 1928 he was Professor of Mediæval History at the Victoria University of Manchester, and during his time in Manchester he was a Member of the Chetham Society and served as a Member of Council from 1920 to 1933. He also served as Ford's Lecturer in English History at Oxford for 1927. In 1928 he became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, remaining in post until 1947. He was President of the Royal Historical Society from 1933 to 1937.
He was a tough, difficult man, small in build. At Oxford, he was determined to reinvigorate history there and made the University the leading centre in the country for historical study.
Powicke was the author of the volume The Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England.
In 1909, Powicke married Susan Irvine Martin, daughter of the Rev. T. M. Lindsay DD, and they had two daughters. Their daughter Janet married the historian Richard Pares.