Tallinn Järveotsa Gymnasium
MARGARET THATCHER
Maria Ignatenko
Form 11.B
Tallinn 2008
Margaret
Thatcher
(1925-...)
General Data
Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born on the 13th of October, 1925 in London. She is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party . Margaret is the first woman who has ever held these posts.
Childhood and Education
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on the 13th
of October, 1925
in Grantham
in Lincolnshire, England .
Her parents were Alfred Roberts and Beatrice Stephenson Roberts.
Thatcher spent her childhood in the town of Grantham
in Lincolnshire. The Roberts family ran a grocery business, bringing
up their two daughters in a flat over the shop . Her father was active in local politics and religion and this played a large role in forming her political convictions. Margaret attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and later Kesteven and Grantham Girl’s School.
She was keen in her studies and outside school enjoyed swimming and playing hockey . After finishing school during the Second
World War she
applied for a scholarship to attend Somerville
College, Oxford and was luckily accepted. She started studying Chemistry in 1944 in
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