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- Margaret Thatcher 1925~ -
On October 13, 1925, Britain's first female Prime Minister was born above a grocer's shop in North Parade, Grantham, daughter of the late Alfred and Beatrice Roberts.
Educated at the local county school, she won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School at the age of 10, followed by admission to Somerville College, Oxford.
Margaret joined the Oxford University Conservative Association, becoming the first woman undergraduate to be elected chairman.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947, a career as a research chemist followed with plastics firm British Xylonite.
In 1949 she was adopted as the Conservative candidate for the Dartford constituency, at 23 the youngest woman candidate in the country.
She married Denis Thatcher in 1951 and left full-time employment to study law, and gave birth to twins Carol and Mark in 1953.
Margaret was elected at the 1959 general election and was MP for Finchley for the whole of her career in the House of Commons.
She was appointed to several posts until 1975 when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party.
They regained power in 1979 and Thatcher became Prime Minister, where she remained until her resignation in 1990.
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