Mad Cow-Girl

Rosalyn Warner, known publicly as Mad Cow-Girl, was a British nurse who worked as an intensive care nurse at Sunderland Royal Hospital and became better known as a long-running candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Born in 1961 and originally from Essex, she lived on Wearside for about ten years. Her involvement with the party began in 1997, when she met its founder Screaming Lord Sutch, and she stood in local and general elections between 2004 and 2008, including Sunderland South at the 2001 and 2005 general elections and the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, where she polled 412 votes. She held party posts including Party Secretary, Campaigns Officer and Party Archivist. She died on 4 July 2010. Her entry records a working nurse whose public fame came from satirical politics, not from any clinical discovery or technique.