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FREDERICK YORK POWELL (1850-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK See also:YORK See also:POWELL (1850-1904)  , See also:English historian and See also:scholar, was See also:born in Bloomsbury, See also:London, on the 14th of See also:January 185o . Much of his childhood was spent in See also:France and See also:Spain, so that he See also:early acquired a mastery of the See also:language of both countries and an insight into the See also:genius of the See also:people . He was educated at See also:Rugby School, and matriculated at See also:Oxford as an unattached student, subsequently joining See also:Christ See also:Church, where he took a first-class in See also:law and See also:modern See also:history in 1872 . He was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1874, and married in the same See also:year . He became law-lecturer and See also:tutor of Christ Church, See also:fellow of See also:Oriel See also:College, delegate of the See also:Clarendon See also:Press, and in 1894 he was made regius See also:professor of modern history in See also:succession to J . A . See also:Froude . Although he never made any extensive contribution to history, 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 Gudbrandr See also:Vigfusson (d.1889), whom be assisted in his Icelandic See also:Prose Reader (1897), Corpus poeticum boreale (1887), Origines islandicae (1905), and in the editing of the See also:Grimm See also:Centenary papers (1886) . He took a keen See also:interest in the development of modern See also:French See also:poetry, and See also:Verlaine, IvIallarme and See also:Verhaeren all lectured at Oxford under his auspices . He was also a connoisseur in See also:Japanese See also:art . In politics his sympathies were with the oppressed of all nationalities; he had befriended refugees after the See also:Commune, counting among his See also:friends Jules See also:Valle's1 the author of See also:Les Refractaires; and he was also a friend of See also:Stepniak and his circle .

He died at Oxford on the 8th of May 1904 . See the See also:

Life, with letters and selections, by See also:Oliver See also:Elton (1906) .

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