Prentice Brothers Limited was an English fertiliser manufacturer founded in Stowmarket, Suffolk during the mid-1850s.
The company produced a number of "chemical manure" products that used coprolites and rock phosphates among other ingredients.
[1] The Prentice family was prominent in Stowmarket at the time and operated a number of other businesses including a gasworks, corn and coal merchants, maltsters and a Guncotton Company.
[3] The fertiliser business was founded by Thomas Prentice and by 1866 was being run by his brothers, Eustace and Edward.
[1] Manning Prentice joined the business in 1871 after Edward was killed in the nearby Guncotton explosion.