The life and rise to power of Margaret Thatcher is a great example of how hard word and commitment are as instrumental to leadership as any other factor.

Margaret Hilda Roberts was born in 1925 and spent her childhood in the market town of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. Not a very brilliant student her early school days were marked by hard work. She got a scholarship merely by chance when the winning candidate dropped out for the scholarship for Somerville College as she was in second place. She went to Oxford in 1943 to study in Natural Sciences with a specialization in Chemistry. Thatcher graduated with a second class Bachelor of Arts degree and later studied crystallography to get a postgraduate Bachelor of Science degree in 1947.