Joan Cockin, otherwise Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh, PhD, CBE; brought up in America, educated at Oxford, British diplomat and part of the UK delegation at the first NATO and Council of Europe conferences; married in India – her career cut short, as was the rule for women, by marriage there. Then, a second career as a consumer champion, co-founding the National and the Scottish Consumer Councils, acting as Legal Ombudsman for Scotland, founding the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau, and serving on a Royal Commission. As well as a writer of 3 detective thrillers…