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Margaret Thatcher's home and early life in Grantham played a large part in forming her political convictions. Her parents, Alfred and Beatrice Roberts, were Methodists. The social life of the family was lived largely within the close community of the local congregation, bounded by strong traditions of self-help, charitable work, and personal ...
Her parents were Alfred Roberts (1892–1970), from Northamptonshire, and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson (1888–1960), from Lincolnshire. Her father's maternal grandmother, Catherine Sullivan, was born in County Kerry, Ireland. Roberts spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father owned a tobacconist's and a grocery shop.
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Apr 15, 2013 · Advertisement. The mother Maggie pitied - and the sister she left behind... and the puritanical father who wouldn't pay for an inside loo and banned her from playing snakes and ladders on Sunday....
Nov 16, 2020 · Margaret Thatcher’s twins, Mark and Carol, got their first taste of public life when their mother became an MP in 1959. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Though she first ran for...
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Nov 30, 2023 · The story of Margaret Thatcher, the trailblazing first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, finds its origins in the lives of her parents, Alfred Roberts and Beatrice Ethel.
Nov 9, 2009 · Her parents, Alfred and Beatrice, were middle-class shopkeepers and devout Methodists. Alfred was also a politician, serving as a town council member for 16 years before becoming an alderman in...
Her parents owned and ran a grocery. They were strong Methodists and Thatcher’s early life was shaped by the church and the society of its small congregation: she grew up in a strong and watchful community, a place of duty, order, unsparing honesty, and charitable giving.
