Olive Edith Checkland was an English historian and writer who specialised in post-19th century cultural, economic and social relationships between Japan and the United Kingdom.
14 Facts About Olive Checkland
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Olive Checkland was born at 20 Lyndhurst Avenue in the Newcastle upon Tyne suburb of Jesmond on 6 June 1920.
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Olive Checkland was the only daughter of the process engraver's traveller and former Royal Navy cook Robert Fraser Anthony and the housewife Edith Anthony, nee Philipson.
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Olive Checkland was taught at a local school, and became head girl.
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Olive Checkland attained a good academic performance, and enrolled on a geography degree at the University of Birmingham in 1938, becoming the first member of her family to have a tertiary education.
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Olive Checkland married the economics student Sydney Checkland on 11 September 1942 and had five children with him.
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Olive Checkland cared for her husband while he was recovering from injuries sustained in the Falaise Pocket during the Normandy landings.
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Olive Checkland arranged and managed her husband's working day, was influential in employing its inaugural departmental secretary, and worked extensively socially and academically with the university.
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Olive Checkland became involved in collecting and preserving the business records of financially insecure Scottish companies.
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Olive Checkland did not collaborate academically further with her husband after his death in 1986.
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Olive Checkland learnt she could find solace and happiness in researching and writing, and specialised on post-19th century British-Japanese cultural, economic and social relations.
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The final book Olive Checkland wrote was Building Cultural Bridges in 2003, which talks about the exchanging of artistic influences between Japan and the United Kingdom.
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On 8 September 2004, Olive Checkland died of heart failure while residing with one of her children in Swansea.
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The obituarist for The Times noted that Olive Checkland sought for formality in relationships and was regularly addressed not by her forename but as "Mrs Olive Checkland".