Robin Hyman, Esq

Career: Nat Serv RAF 1949-51; ed Mermaid 1953-54, md Evans Bros Ltd 1972-77 (dep md 1967, dir 1964), chm Bell and Hyman Ltd 1977-86, chm and chief exec Unwin Hyman Ltd 1989-90 (md 1986-88), chm Laurence King Publishing Ltd (formerly Calmann & King Ltd) 1991-2004, dir Spiro Inst 1991-98, memb BBC Gen Advsy Cncl 1992-97; tstee ADAPT 1997-2006; memb Editorial Bd World Yearbook of Educn 1969-73, treas Educnl Publishers' Cncl 1972-75 (memb Exec Ctee 1971-76), memb first Br Publishers' Delgn to China 1978, pres Publishers' Assoc 1989-91 (memb Cncl 1975-92, treas 1982-84, vice-pres 1988-89 and 1991-92), chm Samuel Pepys Award Tst 2007-; FRSA

Books and Publications: A Dictionary of Famous Quotations (1962), Boys and Girls First Dictionary (with John Trevaskis 1967); 11 children's books with Inge Hyman incl: Barnabas Ball at the Circus (1967), Runaway James and the Night Owl (1968), The Hippo Who Wanted to Fly (1973), The Greatest Explorers in the World (1978), The Treasure Box (1980)