Jean Olivia Lindsay (née McLachlan) (1910–1996) was a British historian who was a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge University.
Jean Olivia Lindsay was born in India, to James Douglas McLachlan and Gwendolyn Mab White.
[1] 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.
She undertook historical research in Cambridge, London and Spain as a Cairnes Student from 1932 to 1936, leading to her PhD in 1936; she was awarded both the University Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal in 1938.
[1] 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.