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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.
Francis Claud Cockburn (/ ˈ k oʊ b ər n / KOH-bərn; 12 April 1904 – 15 December 1981) was a British journalist.His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, [1] [2] [3] but he did not claim credit for originating it. [4]
Claudia Cockburn – British activist for transportation accessibility [24] Tony Coelho – former congressman from California, primary author and U.S. House sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act [25] Rebecca Cokley – Executive Director of the National Council on Disability [26]
Flanders is the daughter of the British comic songwriter and broadcaster Michael Flanders and the American-born Claudia Cockburn, first daughter of radical journalist Claud Cockburn and American author Hope Hale Davis. [4] She was raised in the Kensington district of London and moved to the U.S. in 1980 at age 19. [5]
They did not live together and divorced in 1934 when Cockburn purportedly abandoned Davis while she was pregnant. [9] Their daughter was Claudia Cockburn (died 1998), who married British performer Michael Flanders (died 1975) and had two daughters, journalists Stephanie and Laura Flanders .
The other sister, Claudia, was a disability activist and married Michael Flanders, half of the well-known performance double-act Flanders and Swann; the two children of this marriage are the journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders, Cockburn's half-nieces.
Claudia Cockburn (half-sister) Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories.
Claudia is a female given name equivalent to Claudius or Claudio. ... Claudia Cockburn (1933–1998), American-British disability activist; Claudia Cohen ...