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Famous people, Great Britain Margaret Thatcher
Grantham is a small town in the farming county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. In 1925 Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, who ran a grocer's shop in the town, had a daughter, Margaret Hilda Roberts. She went to the grammar school and then to Oxford University where she studied Chemistry. After graduation she worked in the food industry. She also became involved in politics, standing and loosing as a Conservative candidate in two elections in the early 1950s. She met the wealthy businessman, Denis Thatcher and they married in 1951. She studied in the evenings to become a lawyer and by the time she qualified, in 1953, she was known as Margaret Thatcher.
She finally became a Member of Parliament in 1959, representing the wealthy London suburb of Finchley for the Conservative Party. In 1979 she became the country's first woman Prime minister. By the 1990s "the Iron Lady" was losing support in the country and in the Conservative Party. Finding herself with no support in the Party she resigned as Party leader and as Prime Minister at the age of sixty six.