My friend Hamish MacGibbon, who has died aged 88, was one of the foremost educational publishers from the 1960s to the 80s, when curriculums and the learning materials to support them were being transformed in the UK and throughout the English-speaking Commonwealth.
In 1960 Hamish, a recent Cambridge history graduate, was appointed by Alan Hill, the creator of Heinemann Educational Books (HEB), to head its maths and science editorial department. Hamish created a series of textbooks that became market leaders in the UK and in adapted forms in Africa, the Caribbean and south-east Asia, where he worked assiduously to match local educational needs.
