Alan George Bamford

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, (12 July 1930 – 18 June 2011) was a British academic. From 1985 to 1991, he was Principal of

Homerton College, Cambridge Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the co ...

. Bamford was educated at

Prescot Grammar School Prescot is a town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, it lies about to the eas ...

and Borough Road College, London. He was a

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from 1952 to 1962. Bamford was a

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at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

from 1962 to 1963;

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at Chester College from 1963 to 1966; Principal Lecturer in

at St Katharine’s College, Liverpool from 1966 to 1971; Principal of Westhill Coll., Birmingham from 1971 to 1985.

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1930 births 2011 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Principals of Homerton College, Cambridge People educated at Prescot Grammar School Academics of the University of Liverpool Academics of the University of Chester Academics of Liverpool Hope University {{Academic-administrator-stub