Frederick York Powell
Frederick York Powell | |
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Regius Professor of Modern History | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Influences | Guðbrandur Vigfússon[1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | Oriel College, Oxford |
Notable students | |
Influenced | Percy Dearmer[4] |
Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was an English historian and scholar.
Biography
He was born on 4 January 1850 at 43 Woburn Place, 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, and Rugby School. He matriculated at the University of Oxford in 1868 as an unattached student, the following year joining Christ Church, where he took a first-class degree in law and modern history in 1872.[5] Whilst at Oxford, he was a member of the exclusive Stubbs Society.
Powell was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1874.
He became law-lecturer and tutor of Christ Church, fellow of
Powell died on 8 May 1904 at Staverton Grange, Banbury Road, Oxford, and was buried in Wolvercote. Part of his collection of artefacts were deposited at the Pitt Rivers Museum.[7]
Associations
Powell took an interest in French poetry, and
Powell was a member of the
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 (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).[8]
Family
Powell married in 1874 Florence Batten (née Silke). She died in 1888. They had a daughter, Mariella.[5]
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-951084-9.
- JSTOR 3031222.
- ISBN 978-0-19-517156-3.
- ISBN 978-0-334-04041-5.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35589. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Glasgow University Jubilee". The Times. No. 36481. London. 14 June 1901. p. 10. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Petch, Alison. "Frederick York Powell". England: The Other Within. Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1900). "POWELL, F. York". Who's Who. Vol. 52. p. 816.
External links
- Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell: A Life and Selection from his Letters and Occasional Writings (1906)
- Works by Frederick York Powell at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Frederick York Powell at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Frederick York Powell at Wikisource
- Attribution
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Powell, Frederick York". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 223.
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