Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the longest-serving British prime minister of the twentieth century and the first woman to hold the office. Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1925, she led the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990 and was a transformative and divisive figure in British politics. She was created Baroness Thatcher in 1992 and died in 2013.