Edith Pretty
(1883-1942)
woman, magistrate, and Guardian of Sutton Hoo
Died aged c. 59
Wikidata WikipediaEdith May Pretty (née Dempster; 1 August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
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Edith Pretty 1883-1942 Sutton Hoo guardian, benefactor to the nation and Woodbridge magistrate lived here 1926-1942
Tranmer House, Woodbridge, United Kingdom where they lived