Sir James Drummond Bone,

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, FRSA (born 11 July 1947), is a

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scholar and was Master of Balliol College at the

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until April 2018. He previously served as Vice-Chancellor of the

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from 2002 to 2008, and Principal of

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, from 2000 to 2002.

Education

Bone attended Ayr Academy, a

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secondary school, followed by the

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, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and won a Snell Exhibition to study at Balliol College,

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from 1968 to 1972.

Career

Bone is a specialist on the works of Romantic poet

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, and on leaving Oxford in 1972 became lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the

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. He returned to the University of Glasgow in 1980 as a lecturer in English Literature, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 1989 and titular Professor in 1995. From 1991 to 1995, he was Dean of the

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, and in 1995 became Vice-Principal. In 2000, he left Glasgow to become Principal of

, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the

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, and in 2002 became

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of the

. Although head of the university, he continued to teach an undergraduate class on

, and was also chairman of the

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, directing the city's preparations to be European Capital of Culture in 2008. He also served as President of

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, a committee of university heads, from 2005 to 2007. He retired from Liverpool in 2008, and from October 2011 became Master of

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. He is an acknowledged expert on

's work and is Vice-President of the Byron Society. He was editor of ''The Byron Journal'' from 1978 to 1988 and has been co-editor of journal ''Romanticism'' since 1995. He is a member of the Steering Group of the Council for College and University English, a Fellow of the English Association, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (1995) and of the

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(2008).

Honours

Professor Bone was

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in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and the regeneration of the North-West. He also received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the Universities of

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(2008), Lancaster (2008) and

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(2009), and Doctor of the University (DUniv) from the

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(2010). Bone is also a

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enthusiast, and was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers, a Livery Company promoting the automobile industry.

Bibliography

* ''Byron'' (Writers and their work series) J.Drummond Bone (Author) Northcote House Publishers Ltd (6 Jan 2000) * ''The Cambridge Companion to Byron'' (Cambridge Companions to Literature series) Drummond Bone Cambridge University Press(18 Nov 2004) Note: this is an edited volume.

References

External links

Profile on Education GuardianJISC bio

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