Jean Olivia Lindsay (née McLachlan) (1910–1996) was a British historian who was a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge University. She was the Headmistress of

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Life

Jean Olivia Lindsay was born in India, to

James Douglas McLachlan James Douglas McLachlan (1869–1937) was the first British wartime Military attaché to Washington, D.C. Military career James Douglas McLachlan was born in Semarang, Java, 14 February 1869 and commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron High ...

and Gwendolyn Mab White. She was educated at schools in Edinburgh and at Queen's College, located on

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in London.Janus Online Papers repository
Jean Lindsay papers
Accessed 19 September 2017. Her father was posted as the first British military attache to Washington D.C. and she accompanied him, with her mother and sister Felicita Dina.The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 722; Item: 69 She studied history at Girton from 1929–32, obtaining a distinction in Part II of the Tripos. She undertook historical research in Cambridge, London and Spain as a

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from 1932 to 1936, leading to her

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in 1936; she was awarded both the

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and

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in 1938. Lindsay had a distinguished war service in the Ministry of Information and in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY, renamed FANY (The Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) in 1999) 1939–45, and she came back to Girton as Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow, later also a University Lecturer. She married Humphrey David Richard Pelham Lindsay in 1947. In 1960, she moved to Edinburgh, where she was Headmistress of

until her retirement in 1976. Jean Lindsay published widely, particularly on the history of Anglo-Spanish relations. In 1957, she was named editor of volume seven of Cambridge's

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. Jean Lindsay published widely, particularly on the history of Anglo-Spanish relations.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, J. O. 1910 births 1996 deaths Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge 20th-century British historians British people in colonial India