Early Life
Herbert is the son of a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market. He attended a Catholic school in Bethnal Green called Our Lady of the Assumption, then aged 11 he won a scholarship to St Aloysius Grammar School in Highgate. He left school at 15 and then studied at Hornsey College of Art and joined the art department of John Collings, a small advertising agency.
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