Edith Pretty | |
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Born | Edith May Dempster 1 August 1883 |
Died | 17 December 1942 | (aged 59)
Occupation(s) | Landowner, benefactor, magistrate |
Spouse |
Frank Pretty
(m. 1926; died 1934) |
Children | Robert Dempster Pretty |
Parents |
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Edith 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.