- James Drummond Bone
Sir James Drummond Bone FRSA is a British
academic .He has been the
Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Liverpool since1 September 2002, and has recently announced that he will be retiring from that position in September 2008. [ [http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2007/07/new_vc.htm Sir Howard Newby appointed Liverpool Vice-Chancellor - University of Liverpool ] ] He is the chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company. Previously he was the President ofUniversities UK , Principal of Royal Holloway College and pro-vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of London . Dean of the Faculty of Arts and, later, vice-Principal of Glasgow University.He is an acknowledged expert of
Lord Byron 's work and is Vice-President of the Byron Society, and 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.James Drummond Bone was educated at the
University of Glasgow and theUniversity of Oxford .Professor Bone, a former school mate and personal friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was knighted in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and the regeneration of the North-West. [ [http://www.lxnews.co.uk/2008/06/uol-vice-chancellor-awarded-knighthood/ UoL Vice-Chancellor Awarded Knighthood ] ]
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* [http://education.guardian.co.uk/academicexperts/story/0,1392,1568380,00.html Profile on Education Guardian]
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2007/07/new_vc.htm University of Liverpool Press release]
* [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2007/06/repositories_conference/drummond_bone_bio.aspx JISC bio]
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