Bernard Hugh Gutteridge English poetry of the Second World War: a biobibliography, Catherine W. Reilly, G. K. Hall, 1986, p. 149 (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 Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport of boxing. He was a famous poet of English. Life Vernon Scannell, whose birth na ...

Early life and education

Son of Captain Bernard George Gutteridge, MRCS, LRCP, late

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, of Littlecroft,

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, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Baxter, Gutteridge was born at

, and educated at

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. 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.The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, ed. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 662

Career

Gutteridge served during

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, and with the 36th Division of the

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under Combined Operations alongside Alun Lewis. He also served in the

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and

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. He reached the rank of Major, and was awarded the

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in 1945. He was a director of the brewers Arthur Guinness, Son, & Co. from 1949 to 1979.

Personal life

In 1947, Gutteridge married ''Nabila'' Farah Kérimée Halim, daughter of H.H. Prince Muhammad Said Bey Halim of

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and a relative of Egypt's last king,

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; they were divorced in 1971. One of their three daughters is the actress

Lucy Gutteridge Lucy Kérimée Gutteridge (born 28 November 1956) is a retired English actress. She portrayed Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt in the television miniseries '' Little Gloria... Happy at Last'' (1982), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nominatio ...

. 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). Gutteridge was also a contributor to several literary magazines, and translator from Polish of

Julian Tuwim Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Jewish-Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied ...

's poem for children, "Lokomotywa" ("The Locomotive").British Children's Fiction in the Second World War, Owen Dudley Edwards, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, pp. 403–4

References

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