Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox

She was born 6 July 1937. She is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She also is the founder and CEO of an organisation called the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). She has campaigned for humanitarian causes, particularly relating to disability, and has championed a range of Christian, eurosceptic and marginal causes, including action on forgotten wars in Africa.

Baroness Cox was born as Caroline Anne McNeill Love, the daughter of a surgeon from Hertford, in Hertfordshire. She was educated at Channing School in Highgate. She became a state registered nurse at London Hospital from 1958, and a staff nurse at Edgware General Hospital from 1960. She married Dr Murray Newall Cox in 1959, remaining married to him until he died in 1997. The couple had three children, two sons and one daughter. In the late 1960s she studied for a degree at the University of London where she graduated with a first class honours degree in sociology in 1967; as a research assistant at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, she obtained a masters degree in economics.

Early Political Activities and Peerage

Later political activities

Humanitarian Aid Relief

Trust

Disability activism

Cox supports disability causes as a member of the World Committee on Disability. In 2004 she was a judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award, distributed annually at the United Nations in New York to a nation that has met the goals of the UN World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons.

Geert Wilders controversy In February 2009, Cox

courted controversy when she and UKIP peer Lord Pearson invited Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to show the anti-radical-Islam film Fitna before the House of Lords. However, Wilders was prevented from entering the UK on the instructions of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. In response, Cox and Pearson accused the Government of appeasing militant Islam

Bibliography A Sociology of Medical Practice (1975) Rape of Reason: The Corruption of the Polytechnic of North

London (Keith Jacka, with Caroline Cox and John Marks, jt au 1975)

The Right to Learn (jt au 1982) Sociology: A Guide for Nurses, Midwives and Health

Visitors (jt au 1983) Choosing a State School: how to find the best education for

your child (jt au 1989) Trajectories of Despair; misdiagnosis and maltreatment of

Soviet orphans (with John Eibner 1991) Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: war in Nagorno

Karabakh (1993) Islam, Islamism and the West: Is ideological Islam

compatible with liberal democracy? (2005) Made to Care: the case for residential and village

communities for people with a mental handicap Baroness Cox: A voice for the voiceless. (1999) Boyd, A. Lion

Books.