Drummond Bone
Professor Sir James Drummond Bone FRSE FRSA is a British academic.
He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 until 2008.[1] He is the chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company. Previously he was the President of Universities UK, Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, pro-vice-Chancellor of the University of London, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and, later, vice-Principal of Glasgow University. From October 2011 he will be Master of Balliol College, Oxford.[2]
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. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
James Drummond Bone was educated at the University of Glasgow and was a Snell Exhibitioner at Balliol College, Oxford.
Professor Bone was knighted in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and the regeneration of the North-West.[3]