Sculptor and teacher, born in Cullercoats, Northumberland, full name Charles Neville Bertram. His father was the artist Robert John Scott Bertram, his older brother the painter Robert Bryan Bertram. Based in Newcastle, he studied at Durham University, 1926–9, gaining his diploma in fine art, in 1930 winning his Board of Education drawing and painting certificates, under Robert Lyon. He entered and submitted work for the Rome School, 1931. In 1932 Bertram taught part-time and studied modelling and pottery, also doing some stone carving. He moved to Liverpool in 1933, making commercial sculpture with Herbert Tyson Smith, marrying one of his daughters, in 1936 returning to Tyneside to work on further commercial projects. After six years with the Air Ministry, in 1945 Bertram took on part-time work at Liverpool College of Art, teaching full-time from 1950–73.