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Born	Edith May Dempster (1883-08-01)1 August 1883 Elland, Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	17 December 1942(1942-12-17) (aged 59) Richmond, Surrey, England
Occupation	Landowner, benefactor, magistrate
Spouse(s)	Frank Pretty (m. 1926; died 1934)
Children	Robert Dempster Pretty
Parent(s)	Robert Dempster Elizabeth Dempster (née Brunton)

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/amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.

Early life

Edith Pretty was born in Elland, Yorkshire, to Elizabeth (née Brunton, died 1919) and Robert Dempster (born 1853). She had an older sister, Elizabeth. The Dempsters were wealthy industrialists who amassed their fortune from the manufacture of equipment related to the gas industry. Robert Dempster's father, also Robert Dempster

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Biography of Edith May Pretty

Edith May Pretty was born ion 1 August 1883, at Elland, Yorkshire, where her grandfather had founded an engineering firm. She was the second child of Robert and Elizabeth Demster, who took her in infancy to Manchester, where, with his brother, her father founded another engineering works. She was brought up a Norwood. Broughton Park, and was educated at Roedean School, Brighton and in France.

Her father was a great believer in the educational value of foreign travel, and, as a child, she and her sister Elizabeth accompanied their parents to the Continent each year. Later, Edith travelled widely all over the world, In Egypt, she saw something of the excavations taking place in the Nile Valley early in the century, Professor Sayce, the Egyptologist, being the uncle of her lifelong friend, Florence Sayce, later Mrs Victor McQuade of Millbrook, New York.

In 1907 her parents moved to Vale Royal in Cheshire, which they rented from Lord Delamere; and soon after moving in, her father, who was intensely interested in archaeology, was given permission to excav

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Edith Pretty

British landowner (1883–1942)

Edith Pretty
Born	Edith May Dempster (1883-08-01)1 August 1883 Elland, Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	17 December 1942(1942-12-17) (aged 59) Richmond, Surrey, England
Occupation(s)	Landowner, benefactor, magistrate
Spouse	Frank Pretty (m. 1926; died 1934)
Children	Robert Dempster Pretty
Parents	Robert Dempster Elizabeth Dempster (née Brunton)

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.

Early life

Edith Pretty was born in Elland, Yorkshire,^[1] to Elizabeth (née Brunton, died 1919)^[2] and Robert Dempster (born 1853).^[1]^[3] She had an older sister, Elizabeth. The Dempsters were wealthy industrialists who amassed their fo