Margaret Thatcher, the second daughter of a grocer and a dressmaker who became
the first woman in European history to be elected prime minister. She then went on to
become the first prime minister in the twentieth century to win three consecutive terms
and, at the time of her resignation in 1990, the nation's longest-serving prime minister
since 1827. Some people have seen her as a true politic in that she broadened the base of
the Conservative Party to include the middle class along with the wealthy.
Born on October 13, 1925 and brought up in the modest Lincolnshire market town
of Grantham. She basically lived there all of her life with her parents and older sister. A
clever child whose father was an ardent worker in local politics, she decided early in life to
become a member of Parliament. While growing up it was also a time of cold war. But
somehow never as cold in the Robert's home. Food was always on the table, and money
Family vacations usually took place along side the beach where Margaret would
always meet up with friends year after year while she was a child. Later growing up, she
becomes the first of her family to study at Oxford University and Somerville College
where she was the first woman president of the Oxford University Conservative
Association Graduated with a masters of arts from Oxford in 1950 and worked briefly as
a research chemist. Years went by, many years - which I will mention what happens as the
pages follow - she still remains alive, happily married to Dennis Thatcher and twins named
Margaret Thatcher graduated at Oxford with a degree in chemistry as well,
although she always had an interest in politics and law. After all, while growing up in
Grantham her father was the mayor for a certain time period. So she had been part of
political life and knew the stress that it put on the family. But she did not need to worry
She ran for Parli...