Brief Biography and Actions of Britain´s First and Only...

1.2.Early life Margaret Hilda Roberts was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1925. She spent her childhood in Grantham. She had one sister Muriel, who was four years older. Her parents were Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. The family`s social life was lived largely within the close community of the local congregation, bounded by strong traditions of self-help, charitable work, and personal truthfulness.Her father Alfred Roberts was very active in local politics and the Methodist church,where he was a local preacher.He brought up his daughter as a strict Wesleyan Methodist.The family attended the Finkin Street Methodist Church.Also Alfred was Mayor of Grantham in 1945–46.The family had a grocery store and lived in a small apartment above the store that didn’t have hot water or an indoor toilet. Margaret Roberts went to Huntingtower Road Primary School. In 1936, after doing well on an entrance exam, she earned admission to the Kesteven Grantham Girls School and soon she was the best in her class. Her school reports showed that she was working hard and continuously improving; her extracurricular activities were playing the piano, field hockey, poetry recitals, swimming and walking. In 1943, Margaret was accepted at the prestigious Oxford University, where she studied chemistry, planning to later earn a law degree. At Oxford University she was president of the university Conservative association.After graduating in 1947 from Oxford University she worked as a chemist.