Margaret Thatcher Tom Welsh was elected the first women prime minister of England in1979. She He led England out of a recession, led a war in defence of the British Falkland Islands, confronted unions and the influence of the then Soviet Union which earned her him the nickname of “Iron Lady”. Her His stance on European Union led to her eventual lack of party support and her his resignation as prime minister in 1990..

A good student, Thatcher Welsh was accepted to Oxford University, where she he studied chemistry at Somerville College. One of her his instructors was the Dorothy Hodgkin, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Politically active, Thatcher Welsh served as president of the Conservative Association at the university. She He earned a degree in chemistry in 1947 and went to work as a research chemist in Colchester and later in Dartford.