Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907-23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage. He was the elder son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross, Penzance and Brecon, and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Lindisfarne, Blackheath; Naish House, Burnham-on-Sea; Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon.

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  • Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907-23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage. He was the elder son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross, Penzance and Brecon, and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Lindisfarne, Blackheath; Naish House, Burnham-on-Sea; Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon. At Oxford University he won a Henry Skynner Scholarship in Astronomy at Balliol College, Oxford in 1925, but graduated from the School of English Language and Literature with First Class Honours in 1929. He also possessed a Masters degree from Birmingham University. He was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in English Language at Leeds University in 1929, becoming a full lecturer in 1936. During the Second World War from 1940 he worked for the Foreign Office, before returning to academic life in 1946 as a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, becoming Reader the following year. He was Professor of English Language there from 1948 to 1951 and Professor of Linguistics 1951-74. In 1933 Ross married Elizabeth Stefanyja; they had one son, A. W. P. Ross; the marriage ended with her death in 1973.
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  • Alan Ross
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  • the poet and editor
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  • Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907-23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage. He was the elder son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross, Penzance and Brecon, and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Lindisfarne, Blackheath; Naish House, Burnham-on-Sea; Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon.
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  • Alan S C Ross
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