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Margaret Thatcher
Author: Grete Mägi11C
Supervisors: Marje MaasenTiia Pukk
C. R. Jakobson Gymnasium
2011
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the UK 1979-1990
Denis Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher and her daughter Carol (2009)
Early Life and Education
She was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham
Father Alfred Roberts- an alderman and a Methodist
Mother Beatrice Ethel Huntingtower Road Primary School A scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham
Girls’ School Somerville College, Oxford Second Class Honours in 1947 Bachelor of Science degree
President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946
Moved to Colchester in Essex Local Conservative Association The party conference at Llandudno in 1948 University Graduate Conservative
Association Met Denis Thatcher in 1951 Moved to Dartford
Margaret Thatcher at work as a qualified chemist in 1950
Early Political Career
General elections in February 1950 and October 1951
Lost both times Married Denis Thatcher in 1951 1953 Mark and Carol Member of Parliament (1959–1970) Education Secretary (1970–1974) Leader of the Opposition (1975–1979) Prime Minister (1979–1990)
Campaigning for Dartford during the General Election in 1951
Economy and Taxation
Monetarist thinking Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek Lowered taxes City Technology Colleges The Social Market Foundation Poll Tax Riots in 1990
Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Formed in 1991 Political and economic freedom Five broad goals Educational program The distribution to university libraries
Post-Commons
“Geopolitical consultant“ for Philip Morris Maastricht Treaty Honorary Chancellor of the College of
William and Mary Honorary of the University of Buckingham
(1992–1999) Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing
World
Since 2003
Sir Denis Thatcher died in 2003
Her 80th birthday in 2005
A statue in the Houses of Parliament
An official portrait by the artist Richard Stone
Small strokes Royal
Wedding
Legacy
Privy Councillor in 1970 A peer in the House of Lords in 1992 A Lady Companion of the Order of the
Garter in 1995 A Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983 The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Republican Senatorial Medal of
Freedom The Ronald Reagan Freedom Award A patron of the Heritage Foundation
References
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