Vincent Burrough Redstone
Vincent Burrough Redstone (1853 - 26 April 1941) was a Suffolk historian who suggested to Edith Pretty that the Sutton Hoo Ship-burial should be excavated. He was a master of Woodbridge School and secretary of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. He retired from Woodbridge School in 1921 and spent the remainder of his life researching historical topics. He was particularly noted for his study of Huguenot settlement in Suffolk. Career Redstone's father came from Hampshire and was Master of Alton Workhouse. His father died two month's after the birth of his son, from Scarlet fever. Redstone had been brought up in an orphanage at Wanstead in Essex and trained to be a teacher at Winchester Training College. He returned to teach at Wanstead. In 1880 Redstone moved to Woodbridge to teach at Woodbridge school. in 1880 and took up the post of General English master and Commercial Subjects. He was later to become 2nd master at Woodbridge School. He rapidly became a historian of note studying the archives of the Seckford Trust. He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. With his daughters Lillian and Elsie, he was to build up a large reference