Born on 5 March 1909, George Clutton was educated at Bedford School and Merton College, Oxford.
Between 1944 and 1946 he worked at the British Embassy in Stockholm, between 1946 and 1948 he was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Belgrade, and between 1948 and 1950 he headed the African Department at the Foreign Office.
Between 1950 and 1952 he was Minister at the UK Liaison Mission to Japan.
It was during this period that he coordinated Anglo-American cooperation in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
[3] Sir George Clutton died on 9 September 1970.