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Sir F. M. PowickeFBA FRHistS
Born	Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879-06-16)16 June 1879 Alnwick, England
Died	19 May 1963(1963-05-19) (aged 83) Oxford, England
Other names	Maurice Powicke
Title	Regius Professor of Modern History (1928–1947)
Spouse	Susan Irvine Martin (m. 1909)
Awards	Knight Bachelor (1946)

Academic background
Alma mater	Owens College, Manchester Balliol College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	English medieval history
Institutions	Merton College, Oxford Queen's University, Belfast Victoria University of Manchester
Doctoral students	Richard William Hunt Beryl Smalley James Lydon (historian)
Notable students	Margaret Wade Labarge Kathleen Major
Influenced	C. R. Cheney William Abel Pantin R. W. Southern

Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke FBA FRHistS (16 June 1879 – 19 May 1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Queen's University, Belfast, and the Victoria University of Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement 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 puritanism, and Martha, the youngest daughter of William Collyer of Brigstock. 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 on its 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 England 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 Anna and Thomas Martin Lindsay. Together they had two daughters. 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)
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
Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, 1929
Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1939
Knight Bachelor, 1946
Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1947
Hon. Member of Massachusetts Historical Society, 1947
Hon. Member of American Historical Association
Hon. Member of Royal Irish Academy, 1949
Hon. DLitt, Cambridge
Hon. DLitt, Durham
Hon. LLD, St Andrews
Hon. LLD, Glasgow
Hon. LittD, Manchester, Liverpool, Queen's University Belfast, London, and Harvard
Hon. Doctorate, University of Caen

References

Footnotes

^ https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/72p455.pdf
Brooke, C. N. L. (1987). "Christopher Robert Cheney: 1906–1987" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 73. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 428. ISSN 0068-1202. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
Highfield, J. R. L. (1974). "W. A. Pantin: In Memoriam" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 39. Oxford: Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: iv. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ Southern, R. W. "Powicke, Sir (Frederick) Maurice (1879–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35596. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ 'POWICKE, Sir (Frederick) Maurice', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black)
Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 62.
"Chetham Society: Officers and Council" (PDF). Chetham Society. 4 November 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
"Review of The Loss of Normandy (1189–1204) by F. M. Powicke". The Athenaeum (4469): 667. 21 June 1913.

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

Chetham Society
Works by F. M. Powicke at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Academic offices
Preceded by	Ford Lecturer 1926–1927	Succeeded byAlbert Pollard
Preceded byHenry William Carless Davis	Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford 1928–1947	Succeeded byVivian Hunter Galbraith
Professional and academic associations
Preceded bySir Richard Lodge	President of the Royal Historical Society 1933–1937	Succeeded byFrank Stenton
Preceded byA. T. P. Williams	President of the Surtees Society 1953–61	Succeeded byJohn Herbert Severn Wild

v t e Presidents of the Royal Historical Society
1871–1872 George Grote 1873–1878 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1878–1891 Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare 1891–1899 Sir M. E. Grant Duff 1899–1901 Sir Adolphus Ward 1901–1905 Sir George Prothero 1905–1909 William Hunt 1909–1913 William Cunningham 1913–1917 Sir Charles Firth 1917–1921 Sir Charles Oman 1921–1925 Sir John Fortescue 1925–1929 Frederick Tout 1929–1933 Sir Richard Lodge 1933–1937 Sir F. M. Powicke 1937–1945 Sir Frank Stenton 1946–1949 Robert William Seton-Watson 1949–1953 Theodore Plucknett 1953–1957 Hale Bellot 1957–1961 David Knowles 1961–1965 Sir Goronwy Edwards 1965–1969 Robin Humphreys 1969–1973 Sir R. W. Southern 1973–1977 Sir Geoffrey Elton 1977–1981 Sir John Habakkuk 1981–1985 Sir J. C. Holt 1985–1989 Gerald Aylmer 1989–1993 Michael Thompson 1993–1997 Sir Rees Davies 1997–2001 Sir P. J. Marshall 2001–2005 Dame Janet Nelson 2005–2008 Martin Daunton 2009–2012 Colin Jones 2012–2016 Peter Mandler 2016–2020 Margot Finn 2020-present Emma Griffin

Presidents of the Royal Historical Society

1871–1872 George Grote
1873–1878 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1878–1891 Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
1891–1899 Sir M. E. Grant Duff
1899–1901 Sir Adolphus Ward
1901–1905 Sir George Prothero
1905–1909 William Hunt
1909–1913 William Cunningham
1913–1917 Sir Charles Firth
1917–1921 Sir Charles Oman
1921–1925 Sir John Fortescue
1925–1929 Frederick Tout
1929–1933 Sir Richard Lodge
1933–1937 Sir F. M. Powicke
1937–1945 Sir Frank Stenton
1946–1949 Robert William Seton-Watson
1949–1953 Theodore Plucknett
1953–1957 Hale Bellot
1957–1961 David Knowles
1961–1965 Sir Goronwy Edwards
1965–1969 Robin Humphreys
1969–1973 Sir R. W. Southern
1973–1977 Sir Geoffrey Elton
1977–1981 Sir John Habakkuk
1981–1985 Sir J. C. Holt
1985–1989 Gerald Aylmer
1989–1993 Michael Thompson
1993–1997 Sir Rees Davies
1997–2001 Sir P. J. Marshall
2001–2005 Dame Janet Nelson
2005–2008 Martin Daunton
2009–2012 Colin Jones
2012–2016 Peter Mandler
2016–2020 Margot Finn
2020-present Emma Griffin

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