Drummond Bone 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.
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Drummond 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.
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Drummond Bone 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.
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Drummond Bone served as President of Universities UK, a committee of university heads, from 2005 to 2007.
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Drummond Bone retired from Liverpool in 2008, and from October 2011 became Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
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Drummond Bone is an acknowledged expert on Lord Byron's work and is Vice-President of the Byron Society.
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Drummond Bone was editor of The Byron Journal from 1978 to 1988 and has been co-editor of journal Romanticism since 1995.
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Drummond Bone 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 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Professor Drummond Bone was knighted in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and the regeneration of the North-West.
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Drummond Bone received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters from the Universities of Liverpool, Lancaster and Chester, and Doctor of the University from the University of Glasgow.
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Drummond Bone is a Maserati enthusiast, and was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers, a Livery Company promoting the automobile industry.