Claudia Cockburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claudia Cockburn

British activist

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1933

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1998

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Claudia Cockburn Flanders, OBE (11 February 1933 – 25 June 1998) was an American-British disability activist who spent much of her working life in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Claud Cockburn, a journalist, and Hope Hale Davis.
She married singer-songwriter Michael Flanders in 1959.
Her stepmother, by her father's remarriage, was Jean Ross, the reported inspiration for Christopher Isherwood's iconic character Sally Bowles.
Through her father, she was the half-sister of mystery writer Sarah Caudwell, Ross's daughter, and Irish journalists Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, and paternal grandaunt of actress Olivia Wilde (née Cockburn) and her siblings. In 1987, Flanders formed Tripscope, an organisation to help disabled people with transportation difficulties.
She created the post of adviser on disability to the National Bus Company (UK) in the 1970s and served for many years on the national Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People and the Department of Transport Advisory Committee on Disability in the UK.
She was awarded an OBE in 1981 for her services to disabled people.