• Margaret Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady, reduced the influence of trade unions and privatized industries as the United Kingdom's first female prime minister.
  • Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. She accelerated the evolution...
  • Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, England, as Margaret Hilda Roberts. Her father was a local businessman, dealing in grocery.