London - Tributes were paid yesterday to multi-millionaire philanthropist Lord Hamlyn, who has died at the age of 75.
The hugely successful book publisher died at London's Royal Marsden Hospital on Friday with his wife, Lady Helen and children Michael and Jane at his bedside.
Lord Hamlyn, the son of a Jewish paediatrician who left Germany in the early 1930s, broke the publishing mould by selling mass-market books cheaply. As well as founding the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which donates to the arts, he was a major contributor to Labour Party funds.
Labour Party chairman Mr Charles Clarke yesterday said Mr Hamlyn was a great man who would be sorely missed.
