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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