Alan George Bamford

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

, (12 July 1930 – 18 June 2011) was a British academic. From 1985 to 1991, he was Principal of

Homerton College, Cambridge Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the col ...

. Bamford was educated at Prescot Grammar School and Borough Road College, London. He was a

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from 1952 to 1962. Bamford was a

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at the

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from 1962 to 1963; Senior Lecturer in

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at Chester College from 1963 to 1966;

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at St Katharine’s College, Liverpool from 1966 to 1971; Principal of Westhill Coll., Birmingham from 1971 to 1985.

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1930 births 2011 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Principals of Homerton College, Cambridge People educated at Prescot Grammar School Academics of the University of Liverpool Academics of the University of Chester Academics of Liverpool Hope University {{Academic-administrator-stub