Olive Juliet Cockerell

Olive Juliet Cockerell (1868-1910) was an English artist and illustrator trained in the Arts and Crafts school. She and her partner later became early pioneers of "French gardening" in the UK.

Family Cockerell was born in Dulwich, London on 13 September 1868, the daughter of Sydney John Cockerell (1842–1877) and Alice Elizabeth (née Bennett). Her brothers were Sydney Carlyle Cockerell who became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Their maternal grandfather, John Bennett, was described by members of the Cockerell family as 'abominable' and 'something of a monster'.

Arts and crafts Cockerell studied at Chiswick School of Art in the late 1880s. She became an artist and illustrator and her drawings earned the admiration of John Ruskin. and she visited him at Brantwood, his lake district home, early in 1888. She illustrated children's books authored by A. M. W. Stirling and by Mary De Morgan (a close family friend of William Morris)

Cockerell's brother, Sydney, had worked with William Morris from 1892 as his private secretary, was secretary to Morris' Kelmscott Press and, after Morris died in 1896, he was an executor. Jane Morris wrote that Olive had "promised to come for a long stay in Spring" (of 1902). Cockerell and Nussey became friends and decided to undertake the development a French market garden, growing and selling fresh local fruit and vegetables.

Death Cockerell suffered a decline in her health and she died of cancer on 24 July 1910 at St. Thomas’s Home (part of St Thomas' Hospital, London).

Her death led to the closure of the market garden which folded in September 1910. Her ashes were scattered onto Coniston Water from Ruskin's boat.