Powicke, Frederick Maurice (1879–1963)

British historian. A brilliant medievalist, Powicke's influence at Oxford University did much to maintain and increase a keen interest in medieval history in that university. His Henry III and the Lord Edward (1947), was an outstanding, monumental study of a period of English history which had not previously been thoroughly explored in England.

Powicke was born in Alnwick, England. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and at Balliol College, Oxford University. After holding chairs of history at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Manchester University he was regius professor of modern history at Oxford University from 1928–47. In 1946 he was knighted. Among his publications are The Loss of Normandy (1913), Ailred of Rievaulx (1922), Stephen Langton (1928), Christian Life in the Middle Ages (1935), The Reformation in England (1941), Oxford History of England: The Thirteenth Century (1953), and Modern Historians and the Study of History (1955).