Edith Pretty was born in Elland, Yorkshire, to Elizabeth.
17 Facts About Edith Pretty
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Edith Pretty grew up with an indoor staff of 25 in addition to 18 gardeners.
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Edith Pretty engaged in public and charitable works that included helping to buy land for a Christian mission.
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Frank Edith Pretty had been a major in the Suffolk Regiment's 4th Battalion and had been wounded twice during the war.
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Edith Pretty gave up the lease on Vale Royal after her marriage and bought the 213-hectare Sutton Hoo estate, including Sutton Hoo House, along the River Deben, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
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Edith Pretty served as a magistrate in Woodbridge, and in 1926 donated the Dempster Challenge Cup to Winsford Urban District Council, her former Red Cross posting.
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On 7 September 1930, aged 47, Edith Pretty gave birth to a son, Robert Dempster Edith Pretty.
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Frank Edith Pretty died on his 56th birthday in 1934, from stomach cancer diagnosed earlier that year.
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Edith Pretty became interested in Spiritualism, visiting a faith healer named William Parish and supporting a Spiritualist church in Woodbridge.
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Edith Pretty had become acquainted with archaeological digs early in her life through her travels.
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At the 1937 Woodbridge Flower Fete, Pretty discussed the possibility of an excavation with Vincent B Redstone, a member of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, and Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries.
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Edith Pretty subsequently donated the trove to the British Museum.
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Edith Pretty died on 17 December 1942 at Richmond Hospital at the age of 59, of a blood clot on the brain after suffering a stroke.
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Edith Pretty was buried in All Saints' churchyard at Sutton.
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Edith Pretty died of cancer on 14 June 1988 at the age of 57.
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Edith Pretty was the subject of a play by Karen Forbes performed at Sutton Hoo in 2019, and features in the novel The Dig by John Preston, published in 2007.
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Edith Pretty is portrayed by Carey Mulligan in the film adaptation of the same name on the Netflix streaming service in 2021.