Iain Sutherland (diplomat)

Sir Iain Johnstone Macbeth Sutherland KCMG (15 June 1925 – 1 July 1986) was a British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1982 and 1985.

After a sabbatical and fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University, Sutherland was appointed British Ambassador to Greece in 1978 until 1982.

[1] Sutherland collapsed from a heart attack whilst waiting for a train at Bond Street tube station, London.

He was taken to Westminster Hospital but later died aged 61[3][4] and is buried on the east side of Highgate Cemetery.

His wife Jeanne (née Nutt) survived him and wrote an autobiography of her experiences during the Cold War, From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond: A Diplomatic Memoir of the Cold War[5][6] and also the significant changes during the educational reforms in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation.