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announced that the Floral Hall atrium will be renamed Paul Hamlyn Hall in his honour, following a ÂŁ10m endowment from his foundation to the Paul Hamlyn
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Hamlyn married first Eileen Watson, with whom he had two children, Michael and Jane, and secondly Helen Guest (in 1970), who survives him. Helen Hamlyn is a designer and philanthropist, who heads the Helen Hamlyn Trust.
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had sold in excess of one million copies by 1969. Hamlyn used colour at a time when it was unusual and expensive for book publishers to do so, accessing printers and publishers in
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