Margaret Thatcher Oxford College
She pursued graduation from oxford university somerville college.
Margaret thatcher oxford college. Somerville was founded in 1879 to give women the chance to benefit from an oxford education margaret thatchers former oxford university college will be holding a memorial event for the ex prime. A good student thatcher was accepted to oxford university where she studied chemistry at somerville college. In her final year she specialised in x ray crystallography under the supervision of dorothy hodgkin.
Edward heath became prime minister in 1970 and thatcher was appointed secretary of state for education. Margaret thatchers alma mater is set to become the first oxford university college to introduce compulsory bias training for students staff and tutors. Margaret thatcher battled to preserve her old women only oxford college from european community equality laws requiring it to take in men downing street files reveal.
One of her instructors was dorothy hodgkin a nobel prize winning scientist. The conservatives lost in 1964 but margaret thatcher was re elected and held a number of posts in the shadow cabinet. Founded in 1879 as somerville hall it was one of the first two womens colleges in oxford and counts among its alumnae such major international figures as margaret thatcher indira gandhi dorothy hodgkin iris murdoch vera brittain and dorothy l.
The conservatives were defeated in 1974 following which thatcher replaced heath as leader of the party. She became president of the oxford university conservative association in 1946. Baroness thatcher who died yesterday aged 87 studied chemistry at somerville college from 1943 to 1947.
Margaret thatcher was born on 13 october 1925 age 87 years.