Olive Hockin

Olive Hockin (married name Olive Leared) (1881–1936) was a British suffragette and artist. She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She also enlisted in the Women's Land Army during World War I and published Two Girls on the Land: Wartime on a Dartmoor Farm (1918).

In July 1912 she helped to prepare the banners for the Hyde Park "Bastille Day" suffrage rally. When suffragettes bombed an empty house that was being built for David Lloyd George in February 1913, Hockin was considered one of the prime suspects, although she was never charged. In March of that year, there was a police raid on her home because a suffragette paper with her name and address was found at the site of an arson attack on the Roehampton Golf Club; inside her home was found acid, a fake license plate, stones, a hammer and wire cutters. She was kept under close surveillance by the police. She was charged with conspiring to set fire to a pavilion at the Roehampton Golf Club, damaging an orchard house and putting corrosive liquid in a letter box. She was sentenced to prison for four months and had to pay half the prosecution's costs. She designed the front page of the double summer number of Votes for Women, 26 June 1914.

In 1922 she married John Leared. She had two sons, Richard Oliver Leared (1926-2000) and Nicholas Leared