Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox

The Right Honourable The Baroness Cox of Queensbury FRCS FRCN
The Baroness Cox in the House of Lords, 2008
Member of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 January 1983
Personal details
Born	Caroline Anne McNeill Love (1937-07-06) 6 July 1937 (age 79) England
Political party	Cross-bench (2004–present) Conservative (until 2004)
Alma mater	University of London University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Religion	High Anglican, Church of England

Caroline Anne MacNeil Love Cox, The Right Honourable The Baroness Cox, of Queensbury FRCN (born 6 July 1937) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She has been CEO of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II and opened a new terminal at Heathrow on her behalf. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University; Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006-2013 and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International. Cox has been honoured with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; the Wilberforce Award; the International Mother Teresa Award from the All India Christian Council; the Mkhitar Gosh Medal conferred by the President of the Republic of Armenia; and the anniversary medal presented by Lech Walesa. She has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Russian Federation and Armenia.

As she states on page 174 of her biography she is a practising third-order Anglican Franciscan, Baroness Cox's actions have been variously described as campaigns for humanitarian causes, particularly those relating to disability, or criticised.

Cox was born as Caroline Anne McNeill Love, the daughter of an internationally renowned surgeon, co-author of the famous textbook known as ‘Bailey and Love’, Robert McNeill Love. 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 and a master's degree from the University of London.