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Margaret Thatcher
prime minister of United Kingdom
Also known as: Iron Lady, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
Margaret Thatcher
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History & Society
- In full:
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
- Née:
- Margaret Hilda Roberts
- Born:
- October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- Died:
- April 8, 2013, London (aged 87)
- Political Affiliation:
- Conservative Party
- Role In:
- Falkland Islands War
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Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England—died April 8, 2013, London) was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much as achievement, the most renowned British political leader since Winston Churchill. She was a role model for a later prime minister, Liz Truss. The daughter ...(100 of 1653 words)