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Lynda Chalker

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
PC
Minister for Overseas Development & Africa
In office
24 July 1989 – 1 May 1997
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Preceded by Chris Patten
Succeeded by Clare Short (as Secretary of State for International Development)
Minister for Europe
In office
11 January 1986 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Malcolm Rifkind
Succeeded by Francis Maude
Minister of State for Transport
In office
18 October 1983 – 11 January 1986
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by David Mitchell
Member of Parliament for Wallasey
In office
28 February 1974 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by Ernest Marples
Succeeded by Angela Eagle
Personal details
Born Lynda Bates
(1942-04-29) 29 April 1942 (age 74)
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 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 was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary, University of London and 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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