Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone

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Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone (born April 15, 1943 ) is a British Liberal Democrat politician .

Linklater is the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Michael Lyle and the Hon. Elizabeth Sinclair, the younger daughter of former Liberal Party leader Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso . She was educated at Cranbourne Chase School as well as the Universities of Sussex and London. In 1967 she married the journalist Magnus Linklater . They have two sons and a daughter.

In 1967 she became a Child Care Officer in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , and between 1970 and 1985 she was governor of three schools in Islington . She co-founded the Visitor Center at Pentonville Prison from 1971 to 1977 and her continued interest in the area led to her involvement in the Winchester Prison Project , Prison Reform Trust from 1981 to 1982. She is a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation .

On November 1, 1997 Linklater was named a Life Peer with the title Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, of Riemore in the County of Perth and Kinross . This also made her a member of the House of Lords . On February 12, 2016, she left the House of Lords voluntarily.

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SURNAME Linklater, Veronica, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP in the House of Lords (Liberal Democrats)
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1943