Edith Holt Whetham

Edith Holt Whetham (27 December 1911 – 28 January 2001) was an English lecturer and agricultural economist.

Early life Edith Holt Whetham was born on 27 December 1911, the daughter of William Cecil Dampier Whetham, a Cambridge-educated scientist and agricultural academic, and his wife Catherine Durning Holt, a daughter of Liverpool merchant Robert Durning Holt who had also pursued an education at Cambridge. She had one brother and four sisters, including Margaret Anderson (indexer). Whetham's family owned a small manor house in Devon, and also inherited a small estate in Hilfield, Dorset where they spent family vacations.

Career Whetham began work as a resident scholar at the Ministry of Agriculture, where she was an agricultural economist. Three years later, she moved to the journal, The Economist. During World War II, she worked in the Ministry of Food and the Cabinet Office's civil history department.

Whetham died on 28 January 2001 in Cambridge.