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    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness ThatcherLG OM DStJ PC FRS HonFRSC (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman.

    She served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 until her resignation in 1990,[1] longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th century. She led the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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    Thatcher was the first female British prime minister and was often known by the nickname "The Iron Lady", given to her by a journalist from the Soviet Union.[2] Her birth name was Margaret Hilda Roberts.

    Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist, before becoming a barrister.

    She was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath made her a Secretary of State in his government of 1970 to 1974. In 1975, she beat Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and