F. M. Powicke

Sir Maurice Powicke
Born Frederick Maurice Powicke
(1879-06-16)16 June 1879
Alnwick, England
Died 19 May 1963(1963-05-19) (aged 83)
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Nationality British
Alma mater Owens College, Manchester
Occupation Historian
Known for Works on English medieval history
Title Regius Professor of Modern History
Term 1928–1947
Predecessor Henry William Carless Davis
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.

Life

The son of Frederick James Powicke, a Congregational minister and historian of seventeenth-century puritanism,[1] 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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[2]

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.[1]

Powicke was the author of the volume The Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England.[2]

In 1909, Powicke married Susan Irvine Martin, daughter of the Rev. T. M. Lindsay DD, and they had two daughters.[2] Their daughter Janet married the historian Richard Pares.

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Honours

Notes

  1. 1 2 R. W. Southern, 'Powicke, Sir (Frederick) Maurice (1879–1963)', rev. Alan Harding, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 24 Oct 2013
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 'POWICKE, Sir (Frederick) Maurice', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black)
  3. "Chetham Society: Officers and Council" (PDF). Chetham Society. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Richard Lodge
President of the Royal Historical Society
1933–1937
Succeeded by
Frank Stenton
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