A coat of arms on the Sutherland Building which was founded as the University of Durham College of Medicine. It later became the dental hospital, then a polytechnic building at the time of listing. It is currently part of Northumbria University. Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland was a shipping merchant who served as Sheriff of Newcastle from 1916 to 1917 and as Lord Mayor of Newcastle from 1918 to 1919. Sutherland was a generous philanthropist; he gave Dunstanburgh Castle to the nation in 1929. In 1936 he donated £200,000 to establish a medical school in Newcastle, at the newly named King's College. He later also donated £50,000 to further develop the dental school, founded in 1895. He served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1943.