Sir Frank Kermode

Sir Frank Kermode died on 17 August 2010 at the age of 90. He held a number of prestigious academic appointments: most notably, he was Lord Northcliffe Professor at University College, London, King Edward VII Professor at Cambridge, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. In 1991 he was knighted for services to literature. From 1997 he was an honorary member of the Ford Madox Ford Society and he later joined the editorial board of International Ford Madox Ford Studies. In his foreword to Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity (2003) he praised the series for placing Ford centre stage, ‘lit with increasing brilliance’.