Sir Cecil Cuthbert Parrott KCMG OBE (29 January 1909–23 June 1984) was a British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar.
His diplomatic career culminated with his posting to Prague, where he was the British Ambassador from 1960 to 1966.
On retiring from the Foreign Office, he became first Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies and later Professor of Central and South-Eastern European Studies and Director of the Comenius Centre at the University of Lancaster.
[2] He wrote two autobiographical volumes, The Tightrope[3] and The Serpent and the Nightingale,[4] as well as his biography of Hašek, The Bad Bohemian.
[5][6] His son, Jasper Parrott, is a businessman involved in artists' management.