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
Leader	John Major
Shadowing	Clare Short
Preceded by	Clare Short[n 1]
Succeeded by	Alastair Goodlad
Minister of State for Overseas Development & Africa
In office 24 July 1989 – 1 May 1997
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Sec. of State	John Major Douglas Hurd Malcolm Rifkind
Preceded by	Chris Patten
Succeeded by	Clare Short[n 2]
Minister of State for Europe
In office 11 January 1986 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Sec. of State	Geoffrey Howe
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
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	David Mitchell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office 5 March 1982 – 18 October 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Kenneth Clarke
Succeeded by	David Mitchell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
In office 7 May 1979 – 5 March 1982
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Eric Deakins
Succeeded by	Tony 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 by	Ernest Marples
Succeeded by	Angela Eagle
President of the Royal Geographical Society
In office 2018–2021
Preceded by	Nicholas Crane
Succeeded by	Nigel Clifford
Personal details
Born	Lynda Bates (1942-04-29) 29 April 1942 (age 82)
Political party	Conservative
Occupation	Politician
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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.^[1]

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 is the former president of the Royal Geographical Society.

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