Gunnar Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Djursholm, son of economist Eli Heckscher. He graduated from Uppsala University in 1927 and obtained a PhD 1934. He lectured in political science at Uppsala between 1933 and 1941 and at what later became Stockholm University between 1941 and 1948. He was Dean of the Social Institute of Stockholm 1945-1954. He became a professor in 1948 and worked at both the Social Institute and at Stockholm University.
Elsie Dalton Hewland
Hewland was born and grew up in the north of England. She attended Sheffield School of Art between 1921 and 1924 before spending four years at the Royal Academy schools. At the RA, between 1926 and 1930, she won both the British Institute and Landseer Scholarships. During World War II she painted a number of works depicting life on the British Home Front. These included scenes of nurseries provided for the children of war workers and images of fighter aircraft being built and repaired. Several of these were acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee and are now held by the Imperial War Museum in London. The critic Eric Newton highlighted her work in his 1945 survey of British war art, "War Through Artists Eyes"'.