Edmond Sutherland was educated at Magdalen College School, where he was head boy, and afterwards studied Medicine at Oxford University. Following postgraduate training and research, he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at the (then Birmingham Regional Health Authority) and post graduate clinical tutor at Birmingham University. He retired from Psychiatry in 1985 and studied fine art for several years which culminated in a well-received one-man exhibition in Oxford. He is happily married and has lived in Cambridgeshire for 38 years.