Lynda Chalker

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
PC FRGS
Official portrait, 2018
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
In office
2 May 1997 – 30 June 1997
LeaderJohn Major
ShadowingClare Short
Preceded byClare Short
Succeeded byAlastair Goodlad
Minister of State for Overseas Development & Africa
In office
24 July 1989 – 1 May 1997
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
John Major
Sec. of StateJohn Major
Douglas Hurd
Malcolm Rifkind
Preceded byChris Patten
Succeeded byClare Short
Minister of State for Europe
In office
11 January 1986 – 24 July 1989
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Sec. of StateGeoffrey Howe
Preceded byMalcolm Rifkind
Succeeded byFrancis Maude
Minister of State for Transport
In office
18 October 1983 – 11 January 1986
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byDavid Mitchell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
5 March 1982 – 18 October 1983
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byKenneth Clarke
Succeeded byDavid Mitchell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
In office
7 May 1979 – 5 March 1982
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byEric Deakins
Succeeded byTony Newton
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
24 April 1992 – 3 February 2023
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament
for Wallasey
In office
28 February 1974 – 16 March 1992
Preceded byErnest Marples
Succeeded byAngela Eagle
President of the Royal Geographical Society
In office
2018–2021
Preceded byNicholas Crane
Succeeded byNigel Clifford
Personal details
Born
Lynda Bates

(1942-04-29) 29 April 1942
Political partyConservative
OccupationPolitician
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Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, PC, FRGS (née Bates; born 29 April 1942) is a retired 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, for she held government office for the entire duration of the Conservatives' 18 years in power.

Chalker is the former president of the Royal Geographical Society.

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