Drummond Bone

Professor Sir Drummond Bone FRSA FRSE
Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Taking office October 2011
Succeeding	Andrew Graham
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
In office 2002–2008
Chancellor	The Lord Owen
Succeeded by	Sir Howard Newby
President of Universities UK
In office 2005–2007
Preceded by	Professor Sir Ivor Crewe (University of Essex)
Succeeded by	Professor Sir Rick Trainor (King's College London)
Personal details
Born	11 July 1947 (1947-07-11) (age 64) Ayrshire, Scotland
Spouse(s)	Vivian
Alma mater	University of Glasgow; Balliol College, Oxford
Profession	Byronist

Professor Sir (James) Drummond Bone (b.11 July 1947) FRSE FRSA is a British Byron scholar and current Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Bone had previously served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2008.

Education

Bone attended Ayr Academy, a non-denominational secondary school, followed by the University of Glasgow, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and won a Snell Exhibition to study at Balliol College, Oxford from 1968 to 1972.^[1]

Career

Bone is a specialist on the works of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and on leaving Oxford in 1972 became lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. He returned to Glasgow in 1980 as a lecturer in English Literature, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1989 and titular Professor in 1995.^[1] From 1991 to 1995, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and in 1995 became Vice-Principal.

In 2000, he left Glasgow to become Principal of Royal Holloway and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, and in 2002 became Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. Although head of the University, he continued to teach an undergraduate class on Byron, and was also chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company, directing the city's preparations to be European Capital of Culture in 2008. He also served as President of Universities UK, a committee of university heads, from 2005 to 2007.^[2] He retired from Liverpool in 2008, and from October 2011 will be Master of Balliol College, Oxford.^[3]

He is an acknowledged expert on Lord Byron'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.^[4] 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 Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008).^[4]

Honours

Professor Bone was knighted 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 Liverpool (2008), Lancaster (2008) and Chester (2009), and Doctor of the University (DUniv) from the University of Glasgow (2010).^[4] Bone is also a Maserati enthusiast,^[5] and was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers, a Livery Company promoting the automobile industry.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Biography of Drummond Bone". University of Glasgow. 31 July 2008. http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1223&type=P&o=&start=0&max=20&l. Retrieved 25 June 2011. 
2. ^ "Professor James Drummond Bone". Joint Information Systems Committee. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2007/06/repositories_conference/drummond_bone_bio.aspx. Retrieved 25 June 2011. 
3. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2011/march/election-of-new-master. Retrieved 25 June 2011. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "Professor Sir (James) Drummond Bone". Debretts. http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/3987/%28James%29%20Drummond+BONE.aspx. Retrieved 25 June 2011. 
5. ^ "Drummond Bone: Bigger than the Beatles". The Guardian. 13 September 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/sep/13/academicexperts.highereducationprofile. Retrieved 25 June 2011. 

External links

• Profile on Education Guardian
• University of Liverpool Press release
• JISC bio

Persondata
Name	Bone, James Drummond
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Short description
Date of birth	11 July 1947
Place of birth	Ayrshire, Scotland
Date of death
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