Margaret Thatcher was born in Gratham on 13th October 1925. She was known by the nickname of “Iron Lady”. She was a British politician, and the first woman to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 4th May 1979. Her tenure lasted for eleven years, until 1990.
Margaret studied at a girls’ school in Kesteven and at Somerville’s High School. In 1944 she went to Oxford and studied Chemistry. She became the President of the Conservative Association of Oxford University in 1946. She was the third woman to hold this public office. After graduating, she worked as a chemical researcher in different companies.
She was also a member of the Scientific Workers Association.
Apart from being the only woman to have held this post, she has done it for the longest period of time after Lord Salisbury and for the longest continuous period of time after Lord Liverpool.
She was also one of the two women who have led an important political party in this country, and she has held one out of the four Great Offices of State (main positions at the United Kingdom Government).
During her term of office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the expression ‘Thatcherism’ was coined to make reference to the main ideological points that led her politics.