[4] Partridge was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells[5] and the University of Oxford from which she was awarded Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy[1] degrees.

In 1994 she moved to University College London (UCL) as Weldon Professor of Biometry, and was the Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing between 2007 and 2019.

[6] Partridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2003.

In 2009, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE),[8] and received the Croonian Lectureship from the Royal Society.

[9] In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda as one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology.