Jan Cheek

Janet Lynda Cheek is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the [Legislative Assembly|Member] of the Legislative [Assembly of the Falkland Islands|Legislative Assembly] for the Stanley constituency from Falkland Islands general election|2009] to 2017. Cheek won re-election in 2013 but stepped down from the assembly at the 2017 election. She was previously a Member of the Legislative Council from 1997 to 2005.

Biography

Jan Cheek was born in Stanley, the oldest child of Basil Biggs and Betty Rowlands. She spent much of her childhood in South Georgia after her father was appointed policeman and handyman for the island. For her A-Levels she was awarded a government scholarship to a study at a grammar school in Dorset. Cheek worked as a Secondary School English teacher from 1969 until 1989. She then moved to Fortuna Ltd. where she rose to become co-owner and director until her retirement in 2008.
Cheek married fellow islander John Cheek in 1968, with whom she had two children, Miranda and Rosalind. She then became a grandmother to Hamish, Flora and Tom. Following John's death in 1996, Cheek became a Trustee of the John Cheek Trust.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the [British Empire] in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the Falkland Islands.