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(From Guardian Unlimited)
13 October 1925
Margaret Hilda Roberts born in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
1940
Attends the University of Oxford to read chemistry and law. Becomes president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, her first political job.
1950
Fights and loses her first parliamentary election to be MP for Dartmouth.
1951
Marries Denis Thatcher.
1959
Elected Conservative MP for Finchley.
October 1961
Harold Macmillan appoints her junior minister of pensions and national insurance.
1970
After the Conservative victory in the 1970 general election, Edward Heath appoints her secretary of state …