Randolph Quirk#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 146 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Randolph Quirk passed away December 20, 2017.
Present and Previous Positions
- 1968 - 1981 Quain Professor at UCL
- 1960 - 1968 Professor at UCL
- 1958 - 1960 Professor at the University of Durham
- 1954 - 1958 Reader at the University of Durham
- 1951 - 1952 Post-doctoral Commonwealth Fund fellow at Yale University and Michigan State University
Fields of Scholarship
- Old Germanic languages & literatures
- Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
- History of the English language
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Life peer as Baron Quirk, of Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden
- 1985 - 1989 President of the British Academy
- 1985 Knighted
- 1985 Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Bath
- 1976 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1959 Founder of the Survey of English Usage
- Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy
- Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the Academia Europaea
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
