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See also:POWELL, See also:FREDERICK See also:YORK (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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford as an unattached student, subsequently joining See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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).
End of Article: POWELL, FREDERICK YORK (1850-1904)
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