Frederick Raymond Sutton was born in Edinburgh to William Frederick and Joanna Steel (née Ritchie) Sutton with an English and Scottish heritage. His parents moved in 1927 from Hathersage to Wimbledon, where he was educated at King’s College School and King’s College London, with wartime evacuation to Glasgow. In 1944 he was stationed to Belgium as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he met Ingrid Irmen, his future wife. He went to India as a captain …
