The Edinburgh printer and publisher, Douglas Grant, died in July 2014. He was a significant figure in the printing and publishing industry, latterly as the managing director of Scottish Academic Press. Earlier, he had been the managing director of Oliver & Boyd, and was involved in the efforts to save R & R Clark around 1979. Oliver & Boyd had been sold to the Westminster Press-Longman-Pearson Group, which also owned the Edinburgh fimr of T & A Constable. In 1978 R & R Clark bought Constable’s, and the new firm took over Morrison & Gibb in 1981. The following year, the company was restructured and Clark Constable (1982) closed in 1986.
Douglas Grant
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