Iain Sutherland

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

Early career Iain Sutherland's parents were the Scottish artists David Macbeth Sutherland and Dorothy Johnstone. He was born in Edinburgh in 1925

Ambassador to Russia Sutherland returned to Moscow in 1982 as ambassador. His tenure was overshadowed by the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the expulsion of Soviet spies from the United Kingdom at a time of increased tension often called the Second Cold War. Sutherland retired from his post in 1985.

Death

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 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 and also the significant changes during the educational reforms in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation. She died in , aged 95.