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A Short Biography of Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Author Name:

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Born As:

Margaret Hilda Roberts

Other Names:

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS

Born:

13 Oct 1925

Died:





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Tory Politician                          
                                              
Mother Beatrice Stephenson
Father Alfred Roberts
Husband Sir Denis Thatcher, two children, Carol and Mark.                                              
Prime Minister of Britain - 1975-1990.                                              
Margaret Thatcher was the longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827. Her conservative politics led to the implementation of such policies as the poll tax.

Cuts in higher education spending resulted in her being the first Oxford-educated post-war Prime Minister not to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford

The Conservative government closed 25 pits in 1985. By 1992, a total of 97 pits had been closed with the remaining being sold off and privatised in 1994.
 The closing of the mines resulted in a loss of jobs and an increase in unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher broke up the state-owned British shipbuilders and privatised the companies. Only a few British shipyards survive today.