Harold Braithwaite Mattingly (1923 – 23 August 2015)[1] was a British historian of Roman civilization, epigrapher and numismatist who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leeds.
He subsequently held a Craven Scholarship from 1948 to 1950, writing a thesis on the Roman Imperial Senate.
He married Erica Stuart (died 2008), an artist and potter, with whom he had had three children, including David Mattingly, Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester.
[3] In 1950 Mattingly became a Lecturer, later Reader, in Ancient History at the University of Nottingham.
His research throughout his career, according to his Leeds obituary, "focused on Classical Greece and the Roman Republic and on numismatic and epigraphic problems".