Margaret Thatcher
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![Margaret Thatcher's birthplace, in Grantham, above her father's grocery shop. Coord. 52°54′57.09″N 0°38′42.40″W / 52.9158583°N 0.6451111°W / 52.9158583; -0.6451111Commemorative plaque at Thatcher's birthplace](/Images/godic/202502/15/Maison_natale_de_Margaret_Thatcher,_Grantham2850.JPG")
!["Birth place of the Rt.Hon. Margaret Thatcher, M.P. First woman prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"](/Images/godic/202502/15/Plaque,_maison_natale_de_Margaret_Thatcher2850.JPG")
![Margaret Thatcher abolished junior school milk in 1970](/Images/godic/202502/15/Girls_at_Baldock_County_Council_School_in_Hertfordshire_enjoy_a_drink_of_milk_during_a_break_in_the_school_day_in_1944._D205522850.jpg")
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG,OM,PC,FRS,FRIC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is currently the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.