Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke FBA FRHistS (16 June 1879 – 19 May 1963) was an English medieval historian.
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.
[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, Belfast, where he remained for ten years.
At Oxford, he was determined to reinvigorate history there and made the university the leading centre in the England for historical study.
[4] Powicke was the author of the volume The Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England.