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 Professor Dennis Ward | Times Online Obituary
returned to academe and in the 1960s became the first Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The son of Clifford Ward, a Yorkshire steelworker, he was educated at Rotherham Grammargraduating with first class honours in Russian and comparative philology. In 1949 he arrived in Edinburgh as the university’s first lecturer in Russian, and so began a distinguished academic career ofmembers of staff. In 1963 he became the first, and so far the only, Professor of Russian at Edinburgh, producing many articles and reviews and two seminal works, The Russian Language Today (1965) andwhat used to be called “language laboratories”, taking a lead in starting the Language Learning Centre at Edinburgh and spending part of 1967 at the University of Essex, directing its Contemporary Russian Language By 1985 the good times for British universities were over, rationalisation was in the air and, in the twilight years just before perestroika, the outlook for Russian seemed unfavourableHolland, Tony Hollander, Rabbi Ben Holme of Cheltenham, Lord Howard, Air Vice-Marshal Peter Howard, Nigel Huffner, Bryan Humphries, FlightLazare Postgate, Mary Potter, Charles Pran, Dith Probert, Air Commodore Henry Pumfrey, Sir Nicholas Putterill, Major-General R.R.J. Williams-Ellis, Susan Williamson, Duncan Williamson, Trish Willis, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Wilson, Edward Winstanley, John Withers Woozley, Professor A. D. Worsdell, Squadron Leader Leslie Wright, Air Commodore Ricky Wright, Professor David Yates, the Right Rev John Times. Search globrix.com to buy or rent UK property. © Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard Terms and Conditions. Please read
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