Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, CBE (5 May 1908 – 14 May 1986), also known as Humphrey Sutherland, was an English numismatist.

Sutherland was born in Merton Park, Surrey. He was the younger brother of the painter Graham Sutherland. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1932 he became an assistant keeper in the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, and from 1939 he also lectured in numismatics at the University of Oxford. He was appointed keeper of the coin room in 1957 and retired in 1975. He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1954.

C. H. V. Sutherland

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1970.

C. H. V. Sutherland

References

External links

Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

C. H. V. Sutherland

1908 births

1986 deaths

People from Merton Park

People educated at Westminster School, London

Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford

English numismatists

People associated with the Ashmolean Museum

British curators

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire

20th-century British historians

Presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society