Edith Holt Whetham (27 December 1911 – 28 January 2001) was an English lecturer and agricultural economist.
During World War II, she worked in the Ministry of Food and the Cabinet Office's civil history department.
[1] Following the war, Whetham returned to Cambridge..[1] She was a Fellow of Newnham College[6] and held the Gilbey lecturership in History and Economics of Agriculture until 1963.
[1] Whetham's later publications, sometimes co-authored, included London Milk Trade 1900–1930 (1960), A History of British Agriculture (1846–1914) (1964), Cooperation, Land Reform, and Land Settlement: Report on a Survey in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria and Iran (1968), The Economics of African Countries (1969), Agricultural Marketing in Africa (1972) and Beef, Cattle and Sheep 1910–1940 (1976).
[citation needed] She single-handedly wrote the eighth volume of the Cambridge University Press series The Agrarian History of England and Wales (1978).