Upon their arrival, the family lived in St. John's Wood and the young Hamburger was educated at the St Christopher School in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

His success was developed on the idea of publishing eye-catching, glossy books in colour that appealed to a non-literary retail market.

[4] He published a number of book series including the Hamlyn All-Colour Paperbacks,[7][8][9] The Portraits of Greatness[10] and The Colour Library of Art.

[12] He was appointed a CBE in the 1993 Birthday Honours[13] and made a British Life Peer on 23 February 1998, taking the title Baron Hamlyn, of Edgeworth in the County of Gloucestershire.

[14] He established the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in 1987 as a focus for his charitable interests, and it is now one of the UK's largest independent grant-giving organisations.