The Baroness Linklater, who died 15 December, 2022, aged 79, was a Liberal Democrat politician who was a member of the House of Lords.
Baroness Linklater retired in February 2016, under the terms of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. Her career indicates her interests in children's welfare, education and special needs, and prison reform. She was created a life peer as Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, of Riemore in Perth and Kinross, on 1 November 1997.
She was born 15 April, 1943, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Michael Lyle (1919-2001), and his wife the former Hon. Elizabeth Sinclair (1921-94), younger daughter of the former Leader of the Liberal Party Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890-1970).
She was educated at Cranborne Chase School, a former boarding independent school for girls situated at New Wardour Castle, near Tisbury, Wiltshire, followed by the Universities of Sussex and London.
She married 21 January, 1967, the journalist Magnus Duncan Linklater, CBE (born 21 February, 1942), son of Eric Robert Linklater, by whom she had issue, three children, two sons and one daughter.
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