Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins: June 1799

Harold Gutteridge was born on 16 July 1876 at Naples, Italy, where his father was a pioneer of department stores in southern Italy. He was initially educated at a Swiss school in Naples, and then The Leys School, and to King͛s College Cambridge where he took a first class honours degree in the historical and law triposes. He was called to the bar in 1900 taking silk in 1930, practicing mainly in commercial matters until 1914 when he joined the Territorial Army, serving in the Army Ordnance Corps in Salonika 1916-19. He was mentioned in despatches and retired as a captain. In 1905 he married and had three children. In 1919 he was elected Sir Ernest Cassel professor of industrial and commercial law in the University of London, holding the post for 11 years, developing the faculty of law into a full-time faculty. In 1930 the University of Cambridge created for him a readership in comparative law, which was later converted into a chair, which he held until 1941. He was a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He was a member of many government commissions and committees. He died on 30 December 1953.