Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Eric Alfred Berthoud KCMG, (10 December 1900 29 April 1989) was an oil man and diplomat who served as the British ambassador to Denmark (1952 1956) and Poland (1956 1960). Berthoud was born in Kensington, London, the son of Alfred Edward Berthoud, a partner in the merchant bank Coulon, Berthoud & Co., and his wife, Hélène Christ, who was a member of a Swiss banking family. He was their second son and had three brothers and two sisters. While he was at school, his father's bank collapsed. His father was an alcoholic and died in 1920.