Frederick Arthur Simpson

Canon F. A. Simpson (22 November 1883(?) or 1884 - 6 February 1974) was a historian and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Simpson became a fellow in 1911, and was considered to promise great things. He wrote the first two volumes of a life of Louis Napoleon. After this he spent most of the rest of his college life pruning college shrubbery, and was known as "Snipper Simpson".

His change of direction has been attributed to an unfavourable review by Philip Guedalla, but John Polkinghorne ascribes it to an "inner loss of nerve."