Henry Seton Merriman lived and died in the village of Melton. Between 1932 and 1939 George Orwell lived at his parents' home in the coastal town of Southwold, where a mural of the author now dominates the entrance to Southwold Pier. He is said to have chosen his pen name from Suffolk's River Orwell. Arthur Ransome lived alongside the river during the 1930s, sailing his boats from Pin Mill and along the Shotley Peninsula. Edmund of East Anglia King of East Anglia and Christian martyr St Edmund (after whom the town of Bury St Edmunds is named) was killed by invading Danes in the year 869. St Edmund was the patron saint of England until he was replaced by St George in the 13th century. 2006 saw the failure of a campaign to have St Edmund named as the patron saint of England, but in 2007 he was named patron saint of Suffolk, with St Edmund's Day falling on 20 November. His flag is flown in Suffolk on that day. Gallery See also List of places of interest in Suffolk History of Suffolk Healthcare in Suffolk Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency) Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner Suffolk Coast and Heaths List of Lords Lieutenant of Suffolk List of High Sheriffs of Suffolk Suffolk Youth Orchestra Notes References Further reading William Addison, Suffolk (The County Books), Robert Hale, 1950. Mark Bailey, Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200–1500, The Boydell Press, 2007. Adrian Bell, A Suffolk Harvest, The Bodley Head, 1956. Adrian Bell, Corduroy, Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. Adrian Bell, Men and the Fields, B.T. Batsford, 1939. Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Allen Lane, 1969. Henry Munro Cautley, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, B.T. Batsford, 1937; reprinted Boydell, 1954. Thomas Kitson Cromwell, Excursions in the County of Suffolk, 2 vols., Longmans, 1818 & 1819. Daniel Defoe, Tour through the Eastern Counties (1722), East Anglian Magazine ed., 1949. Sarah E. Doig, The A-Z of Curious Suffolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics, The History Press, 2016. Sarah E. Doig, The Little History of Suffolk, The History Press, 2018. Robert Halliday, Suffolk Strange But True, The History Press, 2008. M. R. James, Suffolk and Norfolk: A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of their History and their Ancient Buildings, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1930. Allan Jobson, A Suffolk Calendar, Robert Hale, 1966; illustrated by Beryl Irving. Allan Jobson, A Window