Eric Berthoud
Sir Eric Alfred Berthoud
(1956–1960).Early life and education
Berthoud was born in
After five years at
Career
From 1922 to 1926, Berthoud worked for the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna, Austria, and Milan, Italy, then joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later BP), serving in Paris, France, from 1926 to 1929, in Berlin, Germany and Nazi Germany, from 1929 to 1935, and then in Paris again, from 1935 to 1938.
When the
In 1945 he was at the
(1956–1960). He retired in May 1960.In retirement, Berthoud became a non-executive director of some BP boards. He worked for the United World Colleges and the Anglo-Polish round-table conferences. He was the founding Chairman of the new University of Essex (1965) and in 1969 became Deputy lieutenant of Essex.
He died in
Family
In 1927, Berthoud married Ruth Tilston, daughter of Sir Charles Bright, an engineer and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. They had three sons and two daughters. One son died very young.
Honours
- Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, 1945
- Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, 1954
References
- ^ I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School by S. G. G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)
- Sir Eric Alfred Berthoud (1900–1989), oil industrialist and diplomatist by Julian Bullard in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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