Joan Cockin

> 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 …