F. M. Powicke

{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir F. M. Powicke | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|FRHistS|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Frederick Maurice Powicke | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1879|6|16}} | birth_place = [[Alnwick]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1963|5|19|1879|6|16}} | death_place = [[Oxford]], England | other_names = Maurice Powicke | home_town = | title = [[Regius Professor of History (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Modern History]] (1928–1947) | spouse = {{marriage|Susan Irvine Martin|1909}} | alma_mater = {{ubl | [[Victoria University of Manchester|Owens College, Manchester]] | [[Balliol College, Oxford]]}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = History | sub_discipline = [[England in the Middle Ages|English medieval history]] | workplaces = {{Nowrap|[[Merton College, Oxford]] [[Queen's University, Belfast]] [[Victoria University of Manchester]]}} | doctoral_students = [[Richard William Hunt]] [[Beryl Smalley]]<ref name="BA">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/72p455.pdf | title=Beryl Smalley}}</ref> [[James Lydon (historian)]] | notable_students = [[Margaret Wade Labarge]] [[Kathleen Major]] | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = [[C. R. Cheney]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Brooke |first=C. N. L. |author-link=Christopher N. L. Brooke |year=1987 |title=Christopher Robert Cheney: 1906–1987 |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/73p425.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=73 |page=428 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |issn=0068-1202 |access-date=18 November 2017}}</ref> [[William Abel Pantin]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Highfield |first=J. R. L. |author-link=Roger Highfield (historian) |year=1974 |title=W. A. Pantin: In Memoriam |url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1974/Obituary%20W.%20A.%20Pantin.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society |volume=39 |page=iv |access-date=18 December 2019}}</ref> [[R. W. Southern]]<ref name="BA"/> | signature = | signature_alt = | awards = [[Knight Bachelor]] (1946) }}

'''Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|FRHistS}} (16 June 1879 – 19 May 1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|fellow]] of [[Merton College, Oxford]], a professor at [[Queen's University Belfast|Queen's University, Belfast]], and the [[Victoria University of Manchester]], and from 1928 until his retirement [[Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)|Regius Professor]] at the [[University of Oxford]]. He was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1946.

==Life== Powicke was born on 16 June 1879 in [[Alnwick]], the son of Frederick James Powicke, a [[Congregational]] minister and historian of 17th-century [[Puritans|Puritanism]], and Martha, the youngest daughter of William Collyer of Brigstock.<ref name=ondb1>{{Cite ODNB|id=35596|title=Powicke, Sir (Frederick) Maurice (1879–1963)|last=Southern |first=R. W.}}</ref> Powicke was educated at [[Victoria University of Manchester|Owens College, Manchester]], where he took his first degree, and at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he took another with [[first-class honours]].<ref name=who>'POWICKE, Sir (Frederick) Maurice', in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who Was Who]]'' (London: A. & C. Black)</ref>

From 1908 to 1915 he was a [[fellow]] of [[Merton College, Oxford]],<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=62}}</ref> 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 on its council from 1920 to 1933.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chethamsociety.org.uk/pdf/CS_Officers_Council.pdf |title=Chetham Society: Officers and Council |publisher=Chetham Society |date=4 November 2015 |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117063851/http://www.chethamsociety.org.uk/pdf/CS_Officers_Council.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also served as Ford's Lecturer in English History at [[University of Oxford|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.<ref name=who/>

He was small in build. At Oxford he was determined to reinvigorate history there and make the university the leading centre in England for historical study.<ref name=ondb1 />

Powicke was the author of the volume ''The Thirteenth Century'' in the [[Oxford History of England]].<ref name=who/>

In 1909 Powicke married Susan Irvine Martin, daughter of [[Anna Lindsay (activist)|Anna]] and [[Thomas Martin Lindsay]]. Together they had two daughters.<ref name=who/> Their daughter Janet married the historian [[Richard Pares]].

He died in the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] in [[Oxford]] on 19 May 1963.

==Works==

* ''The Loss of Normandy 1189–1204: Studies in the History of the Angevin Empire'' (1913)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''The Loss of Normandy (1189–1204)'' by F. M. Powicke|journal=The Athenaeum|date=21 June 1913|issue=4469|page=667|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c108351;view=1up;seq=479}}</ref> * ''Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire'' (1914) * ''Ailred of Rievaulx and his biographer Walter Daniel'' (1922) * ''Stephen Langton'' (1927) Ford Lectures * ''Gerald of Wales'' (1928) * ''Historical Study at Oxford'' (1929) Inaugural lecture * ''Robert Grosseteste and the Nicomachean Ethics'' (1930) * ''[[Sir Henry Spelman]] and the 'Concilia' '' (1930) Raleigh Lecture on History * ''The Medieval Books of Merton College'' (1931) A catalogue * ''Oxford Essays in Medieval History. Presented to Herbert Edward Salter'' (1934) editor *''The Christian Life in the Middle Ages'' (1935) essays *''[[International Bibliography of Historical Sciences]]. Twelfth year'' (1937) editor *''History, Freedom and Religion'' (1938) Riddell Memorial Lectures *''Handbook of British Chronology'' (1939) editor *''Three Lectures'' (1947) *''King Henry III and the Lord Edward: the Community of the Realm in the Thirteenth Century'' (1947) 2 volumes (2nd ed., 1968) *''Mediaeval England, 1066–1485'' (1948) *''Ways of Medieval Life and Thought: Essays and Addresses'' (1949) *''Walteri Danielis: Vita Ailredi Abbatis Rievall: The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx by Walter Daniel'' (1950) editor *''[[Oxford History of England]] – Thirteenth Century 1216 – 1307'' (1953) *''The Reformation in England'' (1953) *''Modern Historians and the Study of History: Essays and Papers'' (London: Odhams Press, 1955)

===Collaborations=== * ''The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages'' (3 vols) by [[Hastings Rashdall]], editor with [[A. B. Emden]] *''The Battle of Lewes 1264'' (1964) with [[R. F. Treharne]] and [[Charles Lemmon]] * ''The Administration of the Honor of Leicester in the Fourteenth Century'' (1940) with L. Fox * ''Essays in Medieval History Presented to Thomas Frederick Tout'' (1925) editor with [[A. G. Little]]

==Honours== *Fellow of the [[British Academy]], 1927<ref name=who/> *Corresponding Fellow of the [[Medieval Academy of America]], 1929<ref name=who/> *Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1939<ref name=who/> *[[Knight Bachelor]], 1946<ref name=who/> *Honorary Fellow of [[Oriel College, Oxford]], 1947<ref name=who/> *Hon. Member of the [[Massachusetts Historical Society]], 1947<ref name=who/> *Hon. Member of the [[American Historical Association]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. Member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]], 1949<ref name=who/> *Hon. DLitt, [[University of Cambridge]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. DLitt, [[Durham University]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. LLD, [[University of St Andrews]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. LLD, [[University of Glasgow]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. LittD, [[University of Manchester]], [[University of Liverpool]], [[Queen's University Belfast]], [[University of London]] and [[Harvard University]]<ref name=who/> *Hon. Doctorate, [[University of Caen]]<ref name=who/>

==References== ===Footnotes=== {{reflist}}

===Bibliography=== *Liber Memorialis Sir Maurice Powicke, Dublin 1963 *Studies in Mediaeval History Presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke. (1969) edited by [[Richard William Hunt]], [[William Abel Pantin]] and [[R. W. Southern]] *''Inventing the Middle Ages'' by [[Norman Cantor]] *W. A. Pantin, "Frederick Maurice Powicke," ''The English Historical Review'', 80, No. 314 (Jan. 1965): pp. 1–9.

== External links == * [http://www.chethamsociety.org.uk Chetham Society] * {{Librivox author |id=11349}}

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