Linda Wade Gilroy (née Jarvie; born 19 July 1949) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Sutton from 1997 until her defeat at the 2010 general election by the Conservative Party candidate, Oliver Colvile.
She finished her education at the University of Strathclyde where she received a postgraduate diploma in secretarial studies in 1972.
She joined Age Concern Scotland (now Age UK), in 1972, leaving in 1979 as a deputy director to join the Gas Consumer Council as a regional manager for the South West of England, in which capacity she founded the Devon and Cornwall energy efficiency centre, before she left in 1996.
She unsuccessfully contested Cornwall South East at the 1992 General Election where she finished in third place some 25,029 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Robert Hicks.
She lives in Plymouth beside Sutton Harbour and has been married to Bernard Gilroy since 1987; [citation needed]