Bernard Gutteridge

Bernard Hugh Gutteridge [1] (1916–1985) was an English poet, novelist, and playwright. He is primarily known for his war poems, considered "verse-journalism of a very high order" by Vernon Scannell.[2][3]

Early life and education

Son of Captain Bernard George Gutteridge, MRCS, LRCP, late RAMC, of Littlecroft, Southampton, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Baxter, Gutteridge was born at Southampton, and educated at Cranleigh. He worked in advertising both before and after the war (part of the time for the J. Walter Thompson agency). His 1954 novel The Agency Game is set in the advertising world.[4][5]

Career

Gutteridge served during World War II in Madagascar, India, and with the 36th Division of the British Army in Burma under Combined Operations alongside Alun Lewis. He also served in the Hampshire Regiment and Royal Sussex Regiment.[1] He reached the rank of Major, and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945.[6] He was a director of the brewers Arthur Guinness, Son, & Co. from 1949 to 1979.[1]

Personal life

In 1947, Gutteridge married Nabila Farah Kérimée Halim, daughter of H.H. Prince Muhammad Said Bey Halim of Egypt and a relative of Egypt's last king, Fuad II; they were divorced in 1971. One of their three daughters is the actress Lucy Gutteridge.[7] Gutteridge subsequently remarried, in 1971, to Elizabeth Tegher.

Works

Gutteridge's writings include Traveller's Eye (1947), The Agency Game (1954), Collected Poems (1927-1955) (1956), The Clock: Poems and a Play (1973), and Old Damson-Face: Poems 1934 to 1974 (1976).[1] Gutteridge was also a contributor to several literary magazines,[5] and translator from Polish of Julian Tuwim's poem for children, "Lokomotywa" ("The Locomotive").[8]

References
  1. English poetry of the Second World War: a biobibliography, Catherine W. Reilly, G. K. Hall, 1986, p. 149
  2. Not Without Glory: The Poets of the Second World War, Vernon Scannell, RoutledgeFalmer, 1976, p. 149
  3. British Book News, British Council, 1976, p. 8
  4. "Bernard Gutteridge". Oxford Reference.
  5. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, ed. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 662
  6. "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 37340. 8 November 1945. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  7. Burke's Royal Families of the World, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 1977, pp. 27–28
  8. British Children's Fiction in the Second World War, Owen Dudley Edwards, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, pp. 403–4
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