Routledge's Alan Jarvis dies

Longstanding Routledge publisher Alan Jarvis has died at the age of 57. 

Jarvis died peacefully at home in Abingdon on Saturday 25th February. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2019.

Jarvis joined Routledge as an editorial assistant in 1986, later becoming commissioning editor for Economics, then Social Science publisher, afterwards global editorial director and latterly global publishing director for Advanced Learning.

Jeremy North, managing director for Books publishing at Taylor & Francis, said: "Alan Jarvis was a uniquely skilled publisher, who combined deep love of knowledge and the academic world, and the sharpest commercial brain, with a lovable nature and gentle humanity. He was instrumental in the growth of our book publishing. Honesty, loyalty, humility, sparkle — we have so much for which to be grateful to Alan."

Funeral details will be released shortly, and a full obituary will follow at a later date.