My father, Angus Ross, who has died aged 88, was a distinguished scholar of 18th-century English literature and a founding member, along with David Daiches, of the English department at Sussex University in the early 1960s.

He also played a key role in the establishment of the university’s graduate school of arts and social studies (now part of the doctoral school), of which he was dean for several years in the 70s.

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