Brian Charles Sutton

Brian Charles Sutton (born 1938 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) is a British botanist, phytopathologist, mycologist, known as one of the world's leading experts in coelomycete classification. He was the president of the British Mycological Society for the academic year 1985–1986.

Biography Sutton graduated in 1959 with a B.Sc. in botany from the Imperial College London, which was part of the University of London (until July 2007). In August 1959 he was appointed Assistant Mycologist at Kew's Commonwealth Mycological Institute (renamed in 1986 the International Mycological Institute and in 1998 merged into CAB International). There his mentors were Edmund William Mason (1890–1975), Frederick Claude Deighton (1903–1992), and Martin Beazor Ellis (1911–1996). His superiors offered Sutton the choice of specialty as either rusts or coelomycetes. He chose the latter and was registered at Imperial College London for a Ph.D. on the genus Colletotrichum. He served as an editor for the Transactions of the British Mycological Society.