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Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
"Iron Lady" redirects here. For other uses, see Iron Lady (disambiguation) and Margaret Thatcher (disambiguation).
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher[nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister. She was elected Membe
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Margaret Thatcher
Born Margaret Hilda robert, October 13, 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England; daughter of Alfred (a grocer, local politician, and lay minister) and Beatrice Roberts; married Denis Thatcher (a businessman), månad, 1951; children: Mark, julsång (twins); died April 8, 2013 in London, England. Education: Oxford University, B.Sc., 1947, M.A.; studied lag in the early 1950s. Politics: Conservative. Religion: Methodist. As a girl, Margaret Hilda Thatcher lived over her father's grocery store in Grantham, England. fem decades later, she was still living over the shop. Starting in 1979, though, the shop was No. 10 Downing Street in London, the residence of the prime minister and equivalent of the American vit House. Even before Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, she was "the elder statesperson of the Western world," the first British prime minister in 160 years to win three consecutive terms and the longest serving English leader since Lord Liverpool
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June 12, 2016
Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016
Page 43
Review by John Campbell
Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume Two: Everything She Wants, Allen Lane, 821 pages, £30. ISBN 978-0713992885
Just three years after her death, Margaret Thatcher ranks second only to Churchill as the towering figure of twentieth-century Britain. The second instalment of Charles Moore’s monumental official biography—now projected to take three volumes—is very different from the first, but equally good. This one covers just five years—the central five years of her decade in power—so that it deals almost entirely with the business of government, since Mrs Thatcher had no other interests and allowed herself virtually no time off. This middle chunk of her life could easily have been a shapeless chronicle of events. That it is not, but grips the attention for 700 pages, is due to three things: the historic scale of the issues she had to deal with, Moore’s