Sutherland was born in Merton Park, Surrey.
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1932 he became an assistant keeper in the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, and from 1939 he also lectured in numismatics at the University of Oxford.
[1] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1970.
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