Eric Berthoud

Sir Eric Alfred Berthoud KCMG (10 December 1900 – 29 April 1989) was an oil man and diplomat who served as the British ambassador to Denmark (1952–1956) and Poland (1956–1960).

From 1922 to 1926, Berthoud worked for the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna, Austria, and Milan, Italy, then joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later BP), serving in Paris, France, from 1926 to 1929, in Berlin, Germany and Nazi Germany, from 1929 to 1935, and then in Paris again, from 1935 to 1938.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Berthoud joined the Ministry of Fuel and Power and was attached to the British legation in Bucharest.

In 1945 he was at the Allied Control Commission for Allied-occupied Austria, then worked on European peace treaties and on the Marshall Plan.

In 1927, Berthoud married Ruth Tilston, daughter of Sir Charles Bright, an engineer and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.