Sylvia Jackson | |
Constituency Mp: | Stirling |
Parliament: | Scottish |
Term Start: | 6 May 1999 |
Term End: | 2 April 2007 |
Predecessor: | New Parliament |
Successor: | Bruce Crawford |
Birth Date: | 3 December 1946 |
Birth Place: | Lincolnshire, England |
Death Place: | Winchester, England |
Party: | Scottish Labour Party |
Sylvia Jackson (3 December 1946 – 27 July 2022) was a Scottish Labour Party politician, and former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP).
In the Scottish Parliament election on 3 May 2007, she lost the Stirling constituency, which she had held since 1999, to Bruce Crawford of the SNP.
Prior to her election she has worked as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and as a chemistry teacher.
Jackson died from cancer at a hospice in Winchester, on 27 July 2022, at the age of 75.[1] [2]