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F. M. Powicke
British historian (1879–1963))
Sir Frederick Maurice PowickeFBA 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.[4] 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.[5]
From 1908 to 1915 he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford,[6] although in 1909 he was appointed as Professor of Modern History in the Queen's University, Belfa