<sod>Nutt was born in London, the eldest son of publisher [[David Nutt (publisher)|David Nutt]]. His mother was the granddaughter of another well-known publisher, William Miller. He was educated at [[University College London School]] and [[College de Vitry-le-François]], in [[Maine, France]]. He spend three years serving a business apprenticeship in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris before taking over his late father's business in 1878. Nutt founded ''The Folk-Lore Journal'' (now ''Folklore'').<ref name="oxforddnb1">{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35269 |author=H. R. Tedder, rev. Sayoni Basu |title=Nutt, Alfred Trübner (1856–1910) |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<eod>
<sod>Nutt was born in London, the eldest son of publisher [[David Nutt (publisher)|David Nutt]]. His mother was the granddaughter of another well-known publisher, William Miller. He was educated at the University College London School, [[University College London]] and at College de Vitry-le-François, in [[Vitry-le-François]], northeast France. He spent three years serving a business apprenticeship in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris, before taking over his late father's business in 1878.{{clarify|date=October 2016|reason=from whom, if David Nutt died 1863?}} Nutt founded ''The Folk-Lore Journal'' (now ''Folklore'').<ref name="oxforddnb1"/> He was elected president of the [[Folklore Society]] in 1897.<ref name="nytimes1"/><eod>