Nigel Cox (other)
Nigel Cox may refer to: * Nigel Cox (author) (1951–2006), New Zealand author and museum director * Nigel Cox (doctor) (born 1945), British consultant rheumatologist and the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia * Nigel Cox (artist) Nigel Cox (born 1959) is an Irish figurative artist. Biography Early life Cox, the second youngest of four children, grew up in Dundalk, Ireland; he had three sisters, Sandra, Jacqui and Nicola. Cox left Ireland in 1977 to study marine radio ...

Nigel Cox (author)
Nigel Cox (13 January 1951 – 28 July 2006) was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006. Childhood and early career Born in 1951 in Pahiatua, Cox grew up in the Wairarapa and Lower Hutt area. He worked in various jobs up until 1977; in the words of his author page on the Victoria University Press website, "His early working life reads like an author trying to find his way: advertising account executive, assembly line worker at Ford, deck hand, coalman, door-to-door turkey salesman, driver." Later, between 1977 and 1993, he worked as a bookseller in Auckland and Wellington. First novels His first two novels, ''Waiting for Einstein'' (1984) and '' Dirty Work'' (1987) were both written while he was working in bookstores in Wellington and Auckland. Both these novels have Wellington settings. For ''Dirty Work'', Cox was awarded the Bucklands Memorial Literary Prize in 1988, as well as the 1991 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. Fr ...
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Nigel Cox (doctor)
Nigel Leigh Cox (born 1945 in Surrey) is an English consultant rheumatologist and one of the few doctors in Britain to have been charged with attempted murder. In 1992 he was convicted of the attempted murder of patient Lillian Boyes, and received a suspended sentence. Career Cox worked at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, England. Lillian Boyes In 1991 Lillian Boyes, then 70, entered the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. Cox was her consultant and had been treating Boyes for 13 years. As her rheumatoid arthritis became worse, she pleaded with him to end her life. According to the hospital chaplain, 'When anyone touched her you could hear the bones move about in their joints. The sound will stay with me to the grave'. In August 1991, Cox administered an injection of two ampoules of potassium chloride, in order to stop her heart. After she died, Patrick, one of her sons, thanked Cox. In Cox's view, he probably shortened her life by "between 15 minutes and an hour ...
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