ABSTRACT
Alfred Cox helped to found the Gateshead Queen Victoria Nursing Association and, in 1898, he also founded the Gateshead Medical Association. He played an active part in local politics, joining forces with the rector in a campaign for slum clearance. Cox was a keen member of the parliamentary bills committee. This was particularly for the time period between 1899 and 1903 and later in the years 1907 to 1908. When the First World War started, Cox acted as joint secretary of the Central Medical War Committee where he helped to organise the supply of doctors to the armed forces, for which he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. In 1932, Cox retired from the British Medical Association (BMA) after staying for a year beyond retirement in order to oversee the celebrations for the BMA’s centenary. After retiring from the BMA Cox took up several different medico-political positions in a number of different societies.
