Biography of Margaret Thatcher

Who was Margaret Thatcher?

        She was a policy that was ranked Britain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and was the person in that position for longer during the twentieth century and the only woman to have held this position in your country.

Which was the nickname of Margaret Thatcher?

        Nicknamed was her "The Iron Lady" for his strong opposition to the Soviet Union implemented a series of conservative policies that became known as Thatcherism

Which specialized in margaret thatcher?

        Margaret applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville school, Oxford but was initially rejected, and only offered a place after another candidate withdrew. He arrived at Oxford in 1943 and graduated four years later, in 1947, with second class honors degree in Bachelor of Science, in the last year, she specialized in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin.

He became president of the Conservative Association at Oxford University in 1946, where he was influenced at university by political works such as The Road to Serfdom (1944), 25, Friedrich von Hayek, who saw government economic intervention as a precursor of an authoritarian state.

How was your political career?

           In the general elections of 1950 and 1951, Roberts was the conservative candidate for the Labour stronghold seat of Dartford, where he attracted the attention of the media for being the youngest and the only female candidate. Although they lost both times to Norman Dodds, markedly reduced the Labour majority in 6000, and then to other 1000 (by a strange coincidence, Edward Heath, was first elected in the constituency neighbor in 1950). During the campaigns, Roberts was supported by her parents and by Denis Thatcher, whom she married in December 1951. Denis funded his wife's studies for the Bar Association, was received in the category of barrister in 1953 and specialized in tax law. That same year her twins were born, Carol and Mark. Thatcher was not a candidate in the general election of 1955, as it took place relatively soon after the birth of their children, but was narrowly defeated candidate for Orpington by-election in 1955, which won Donald Sumner.

throughout his career was:

     -Member of Parliament (1959-1970)

     -Minister of Education (1970-1974)

     -Leader of the Opposition (1975-1979)

     -Prime Minister (1979-1990)

In February 2007, Thatcher became the first prime minister to be honored live with a statue in the Houses of Parliament.

How has life been after his political career?

    

      Thatcher's health declined significantly during the 2000s. He suffered several small strokes in 2002 and his doctors advised him not to give public speeches. After collapsing during a dinner at the House of Lords, was admitted to St. Thomas Hospital in central London on May 7, 2008 to efectuársele tests. In June 2009, he slipped at home and broke his arm, so it had to be operated and kept under observation. On October 19, 2010, was admitted again because of the flu, why could not attend the celebration of his 85th birthday that the British government had organized. According to a book published by his daughter Carol in 2008, A Swim-On Part In The Goldfish Bowl, senile dementia Thatcher about since 2000. As reported, the Falklands War confused with that of Bosnia, must constantly remind her husband Denis died several years ago and is unable to speak for more than ten minutes because they lost and forgotten phrases.

        

        Thatcher is a public supporter of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism and the resulting Prague Process result, even sent a public letter of support for the previous conference. On April 29, 2011, was invited to the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, but did not attend, nor to the ceremony for the unveiling of a statue of three meters of former Ronald Reagan against the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, apparently due to his fragile health. In June, she was awarded by the Spanish president José María Aznar with FAES II Prize for Freedom in his private residence in London. On July 31, it was announced that the office of the Baroness in the House of Lords had been closed, the month in which Thatcher was named the most competent British Prime Minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos MORI poll. Thatcher no longer makes public appearances due to their difficulty to communicate and mobilize.