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Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton

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Lynda Margaret Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton (born 26 February 1949) is a Scottish politician, formerly the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands. She has been Advocate General for Scotland since the position was created in 1999.

She won the seat in the 1997 election, displacing Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Malcolm Rifkind. She stood down at the 2005 election, allowing Alistair Darling to contest the new Edinburgh South West seat.

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that she would be created a life peer, and on 21 June 2005 the title was gazetted as Baroness Clark of Calton, of Calton in the City of Edinburgh.

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