Margaret Thatcher Research Paper

Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1925. Her father was Alfred Roberts, originally from Northampton shire, and her mother was Beatrice Ethel (née Stephenson) from Lincoln shire. She spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father owned two grocery shops. She and her older sister Muriel (1921–2004) were raised in the flat above the larger of the two, on North Parade near the railway line. Her father was active in local politics and the Methodistchurch, serving as an alderman and a local preacher, and brought up his daughter as a strict Wesleyan Methodist attending the Finkin Street Methodist Church. He came from a Liberal family but stood—as was then customary in local government—as an Independent. He was Mayor of Grantham in 1945–1946 and lost his position as alderman in 1952 after the Labour Party won its first majority on Grantham Council in 1950. (Wikipedia)

Then she went to Somerville College, Oxford and specialize in X-ray crystallography and became president of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946. After graduating, Roberts joined the local Conservative Association and attended the party conference at Llandudno in 1948, as a representative of the University Graduate Conservative Association. Accidentally, she became a candidate of the Dartford Conservative Association in Kent and met Denis Thatcher at a dinner. Denis was a wealthy divorced businessman; he drove Margaret Roberts to her Essex train.