Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey PC |
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Official portrait of Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
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| Minister for Overseas Development & Africa |
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In office 24 July 1989 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister |
Margaret Thatcher John Major |
| Preceded by | Chris Patten |
| Succeeded by | Clare Short (as Secretary of State for International Development) |
| Minister for Europe | |
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In office 11 January 1986 – 24 July 1989 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Rifkind |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 18 October 1983 – 11 January 1986 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Succeeded by | David Mitchell |
| Member of Parliament for Wallasey | |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Ernest Marples |
| Succeeded by | Angela Eagle |
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Lynda Bates 29 April 1942 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | Politician |
Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, PC (née Bates; born 29 April 1942) is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Wallasey from 1974 to 1992. She served as Minister of State for Overseas Development and Africa at the Foreign Office, in the Conservative government from 1989 to 1997.
Chalker headed the British delegation which participated in the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development in October 1993.
She jointly holds the 20th-century record for continuous government service, along with Kenneth Clarke, Malcolm Rifkind, Tony Newton and Patrick Mayhew, as she held office for the entire duration of the Conservatives' 18 years in power.
Chalker was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Westminster (then known as the Polytechnic of Central London), and worked as a statistician and market researcher, including spells with Shell-Mex and BP and Opinion Research Centre (ORC), before entering Parliament as MP for Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples. She held a number of government posts, including spells as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Security from 1979–82 and at the Department of Transport from 1982–83. In 1983 she became Minister of State at Transport, being appointed Minister for Europe in 1986.
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