How Margaret Thatcher Won Her Third Consecutive Term as Prime Minister
On this day, Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister for the third time
Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British politician of the Conservative Party and, from 1979 to 1990, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. On this day, the 11th of June, she was elected prime minister for the third consecutive time.
A Brief History of Thatcher’s Youth and Education
Margaret Thatcher was born Margaret Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Her father was Alfred Roberts from Northamptonshire. Her mother’s name was Beatrice Ethel, and she was from Lincolnshire.
She spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father owned two grocery stores. Roberts attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School.
In her final year, she applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville College, a women’s college at Oxford University. She was initially rejected, but after another candidate dropped out, she was still offered a place.
In 1946 Roberts became president of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
