Olive Hockin (1880-1936)
Olive Leared nee Hockin (1880-1936) was an artist who exhibited at the Society of Women Artists, at the Walker Gallery and until 1915 at the Royal Academy. As one of several leaders of the Suffragette movement suspected of plotting to kill the Prime Minister, she was arrested and imprisoned for four months in 1909. She worked as a land-girl during World War One and wrote a book, Two Girls on the Land. She married John Leared, a trainer of polo ponies and had two children.