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UoL VICE-CHANCELLOR AWARDED KNIGHTHOOD
University of Liverpool Vice-Chancellor, Professor Drummond Bone, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Professor Bone, who has been awarded the honour for services to Higher Education and the regeneration of the North-West, said: “This is an honour I share with my colleagues at the University of Liverpool and also those I have been proud to work with in the North-West and throughout my career. This recognition comes at a time when eyes are even more firmly on Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture. We have much to celebrate and much to look forward to.”
Famous for his work on Romantic Studies, in particular Byron, he was academic editor of the ‘Byron Journal’ for 10 years and is co-editor of the journal ‘Romanticism’. He joined the University of Liverpool in September 2002 after being appointed Vice-Chancellor, having previously been Principal of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. He was also President of Universities UK from August 2005 to August 2007.
He is due to step down from his post as Vice-Chancellor in September to make way for Sir Howard Newby, who is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England.
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