Edith May Pretty (1883–1942) by unknown photographer, c.1939 © National Trust Images / Sutton Hoo
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Pauline M. Sabin Moore
Pretty [née Dempster], Edith May (1883–1942), landowner and benefactor, was born on 1 August 1883 at Elland, near Halifax, Yorkshire, the second daughter of Robert Dempster (d. 1925), then a gas engineer employed in his father's company, and his wife, Elizabeth, ...