# Frederick York Powell
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{{Short description|English historian (1850–1904)}}
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| birth_place = [Bloomsbury](/source/Bloomsbury), London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1904|5|8|1850|1|4|df=y}}
| death_place = [Oxford](/source/Oxford), England
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| title = [Regius Professor of Modern History](/source/Regius_Professor_of_Modern_History_(Oxford))
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| alma_mater = [Christ Church, Oxford](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford)
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| influences = [Guðbrandur Vigfússon](/source/Gu%C3%B0brandur_Vigf%C3%BAsson)[{{cite book |last=Sutcliffe |first=Peter H. |year=2002 |orig-year=1978 |title=The Oxford University Press: An Informal History |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxforduniversity0000sutc/page/81 81] |isbn=978-0-19-951084-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxforduniversity0000sutc/page/81 }}]
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| discipline = History
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| workplaces = [Oriel College, Oxford](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford)
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* [Charles A. Beard](/source/Charles_A._Beard)[{{cite journal |last=Lerner |first=Max |author-link=Max Lerner |year=1950 |title=The Political Theory of Charles A. Beard |journal=American Quarterly |volume=2 |issue=4 |page=304 |doi=10.2307/3031222 |jstor=3031222 |issn=1080-6490}}]
* [R. B. Merriman](/source/R.%26nbsp%3BB._Merriman)[{{cite book |last=Cannadine |first=David |author-link=David Cannadine |year=2003 |orig-year=2002 |title=In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain |location=London |publisher=Penguin Books |page=189 |isbn=978-0-19-517156-3}}]
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| influenced = [Percy Dearmer](/source/Percy_Dearmer)[{{cite book |last=Beeson |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor Beeson |year=2006 |title=The Canons: Cathedral Close Encounters |location=London |publisher=SCM Press |page=101 |isbn=978-0-334-04041-5}}]
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'''Frederick York Powell''' (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was an English historian and scholar.
== Biography ==
[[File:Frederick York Powell 21 March 1895.jpg|thumb|Powell as caricatured by Spy ([Leslie Ward](/source/Leslie_Ward)) in ''[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(UK_magazine))'', March 1895]]
He was born on 4 January 1850 at 43 Woburn Place, [Bloomsbury](/source/Bloomsbury), London, the son of Frederick Powell, a commissariat merchant, and his wife Mary Powell, daughter of Dr James Powell. He was educated at the Manor House School at [Hastings](/source/Hastings), and [Rugby School](/source/Rugby_School). He matriculated at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) in 1868 as an unattached student, the following year joining [Christ Church](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford), where he took a first-class degree in [law](/source/law) and modern history in 1872.[{{cite ODNB|id=35589|first=Carolyne|last=Larrington|title=Powell, Frederick Yorke}}] Whilst at Oxford, he was a member of the exclusive [Stubbs Society](/source/Stubbs_Society).
Powell was called to the bar at the [Middle Temple](/source/Middle_Temple) in 1874.
He became law-lecturer and tutor of Christ Church, fellow of [Oriel College](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford), delegate of the Clarendon Press, and in 1894 he was made [Regius Professor of Modern History](/source/Regius_Professor_of_Modern_History_(Oxford)) in succession to [James Anthony Froude](/source/James_Anthony_Froude). In June 1901 he received an honorary doctorate ([LLD](/source/Legum_Doctor)) from the [University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow) during celebrations for the university's 450th jubilee.[{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-glasgow-university-jubilee/131294008/ |date=14 June 1901 |title=Glasgow University Jubilee |page=10 |newspaper=The Times|publication-place=London |issue=36481 |access-date=2024-01-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
Powell died on 8 May 1904 at Staverton Grange, [Banbury Road](/source/Banbury_Road), [Oxford](/source/Oxford), and was buried in [Wolvercote](/source/Wolvercote). Part of his collection of artefacts were deposited at the [Pitt Rivers Museum](/source/Pitt_Rivers_Museum).[{{cite web|url=http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Frederick-York-Powell.html|title=Frederick York Powell|last=Petch|first=Alison|work=England: The Other Within|publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum|access-date=11 January 2011}}]
==Associations==
Powell took an interest in French poetry, and [Paul Verlaine](/source/Paul_Verlaine), [Stéphane Mallarmé](/source/St%C3%A9phane_Mallarm%C3%A9), and [Emile Verhaeren](/source/Emile_Verhaeren) all lectured at Oxford under his auspices. He was also a connoisseur in Japanese art. In politics his sympathies were with the oppressed of all nationalities; he had befriended refugees after the Commune, counting among his friends [Jules Vallès](/source/Jules_Vall%C3%A8s) the author of ''Les Réfractaires''; and he was also a friend of [Stepniak](/source/Sergey_Stepnyak-Kravchinsky) and his circle.
Powell was a member of the [Folklore Society](/source/Folklore_Society) and became its president in the year that he died. The society's journal, which had published his papers, printed an obituary by [Edward Clodd](/source/Edward_Clodd).
==Works==
Powell's contributions to history were not extensive, but he was a particularly stimulating teacher. He had been attracted in his school days to the study of Scandinavian history and literature, and he was closely allied with Professor [Guðbrandur Vigfússon](/source/Gu%C3%B0brandur_Vigf%C3%BAsson) (d. 1889), whom he assisted in his ''Icelandic Prose Reader'' (1897), ''Corpus Poeticum Boreale'' (1887), and ''Origines Islandicae'' (1905), and in the editing of the ''Grimm Centenary'' papers (1886).[{{cite magazine|title=POWELL, F. York|magazine=Who's Who|year=1900|volume= 52|page=816|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA816|last1=Addison|first1=Henry Robert|last2=Oakes|first2=Charles Henry|last3=Lawson|first3=William John|last4=Sladen|first4=Douglas Brooke Wheelton}}]
==Family==
Powell married in 1874 Florence Batten (née Silke). She died in 1888. They had a daughter, Mariella.
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