Professor Sir Drummond Bone FRSA FRSE |
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Master of Balliol College, Oxford | |
Assumed office October 2011 |
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Preceded by | Andrew Graham |
Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London | |
In office 2000–2002 |
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Preceded by | Professor Norman Gowar |
Succeeded by | Professor Stephen Hill |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool |
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In office 2002–2008 |
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Chancellor | The Lord Owen |
Succeeded by | Sir Howard Newby |
President of Universities UK | |
In office 2005–2007 |
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Preceded by |
Professor Sir Ivor Crewe (University of Essex) |
Succeeded by |
Professor Sir Rick Trainor (King's College London) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ayrshire, Scotland |
11 July 1947
Spouse(s) | Vivian |
Alma mater |
University of Glasgow; Balliol College, Oxford |
Profession | Byronist |
Sir James Drummond Bone, FRSE, FRSA (born 11 July 1947), is a Byron scholar and current Master of Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He previously served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2008, and Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2000 to 2002.
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.
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 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 Faculty of Arts, and in 1995 became Vice-Principal.
In 2000, he left Glasgow to become Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, 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. He retired from Liverpool in 2008, and from October 2011 became Master of Balliol College, Oxford.