Joan Cockin was the pen name of Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh, PhD, CBE. She was one of the very first women to be a British diplomat. Brought up in America, educated at Oxford, and married in India – her career cut short, as was then the rule for women, by marriage there to a Scottish banker. She was part of the UK delegation at the founding of both NATO and the Council of Europe. Macintosh went on to have a second career as a trail-blazing consumer champion, co-founding the National Consumer Council and the Scottish Consumer Council, acting as Legal Ombudsman for Scotland, founding and chairing the Insurance Ombudsman service, and serving on a Royal Commission. As Cockin she only published three mysteries: Curiosity Killed the Cat (1947), Villainy at Vespers (1949), and Deadly Earnest (1952) - biography by Galileo Publishers.
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Cornwall (england : county), fiction, Detective and mystery stories, post WWII Britain--fictionPlaces
Cornwall (England)Time
late 1940sID Numbers
- OLID: OL6261253A
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Alternative names
- Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh
- Edith Joan Burbidge
- Edith Burbidge
- Edith Burbidge Macintosh
- Edith Macintosh
- Joan Macintosh
- Dr. Joan Macintosh
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April 16, 2023 | Edited by M C W | added biography by Galileo Publishers |
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