Известный человек Великобритании

on 13 October 1925. Her father was Alfred Roberts, originally

from Northamptonshire, and her mother was Beatrice Ethel from Lincolnshire.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 Methodist church, 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

plaque on the house where she was born Margaret Thatcher

was the Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of

Dartford. The local party selected her as its candidate because, though not a dynamic public speaker, Roberts was well-prepared and fearless in her answers; another prospective candidate recalled that "Once she opened her mouth, the rest of us began to look rather second-rate«. She attracted media attention as the youngest and the only female candidate.

seat in parliament. In 1955, it failed to become a

candidate for the Conservative Party in the constituency Orpington, but in April 1958 became a candidate in the district of Finchley. In October 1961, Thatcher was nominated for the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State pensions and social insurance office Harold Macmillan

the Minister of Education and Science in the cabinet of

Edward Heath. In the parliamentary elections in 1970 won by the Conservative Party under the leadership of Edward Heath. The new government of Margaret Thatcher was appointed Minister of Education and Science.

was seriously ill. December 21, 2012 she underwent surgery to

remove a bladder tumor. Thatcher died in the early morning April 8, 2013 at the 88th year of life at the "Ritz" in the center of London, where he lived after the end of 2012 she was discharged from the hospital. Cause of death was a stroke