Frederick York Powell

Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford University, 1894–1904.

Quotes

• It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.
  • Of a talk by Lewis Carroll
  • The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) p. 356

• Poor playthings of the man that's gone,
  Surely we would not have them thrown,
  Like wreckage on a barren strand,
  The prey of every greedy hand.
  • "On a Certain Auction in 1897"
  • (Actually 1898, of the personal effects of Lewis Carroll)
  • Frederick York Powell, a life and a selection from his letters and occasional writings