Margaret Thatcher received numerous honours in recognition of her career in politics. These included a peerage, membership of the Order of the Garter, the Order of Saint John and the Order of Merit, along with numerous other British and foreign honours. These included the Order of King Abdulaziz from Saudi Arabia in 1990. She was also honoured in Kuwait in 1991.

Life peerage Margaret Thatcher was given a life peerage on her standing down from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election. This allowed her a seat in the House of Lords. She took the title Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire. She sat with the Conservative Party benches.

Coat of arms As a member of the House of Lords with a life peerage, Thatcher was entitled to use a personal coat of arms. A second coat of arms was created following her appointment as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter (LG) in 1995. Despite receiving her own arms, Thatcher sometimes used the Royal Arms instead of her own, contrary to protocol.

Commonwealth honours

+Commonwealth realms Country Date Appointment Post-nominal letters 1970 Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council PC Commonwealth realms 7 December 1990 Member of the Order of Merit OM 1 July 1991 Dame of Justice of the Order of St John DStJ 25 April 1995 Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter LG

Foreign honours

+Orders Country Date Appointment Ref. 7 March 1991 Presidential Medal of Freedom 15 May 1991 Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope 3 October 1991 Honorary Citizenship of Kraków 24 May 1995 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown 18 June 1996 Honorary Citizenship of the City of Poznań 15 September 1998 Grand Order of King Dimitar Zvonimir 28 October 1998 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award Youtube n° 0C7j8jw95y0 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award 17 November 1999 Order of the White Lion, First Class Speech receiving the Order of the White Lion in Prague 2000 Honorary Citizenship of the City of Gdańsk 31 August 2001 Order of Friendship, First Class Peter Harrington 14 November 2003 Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Francis I Awarded on behalf of the Catholic Church by the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies 16 February 2008 Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great ArchiveVLE

Other distinctions

Scholastic +University degrees Location Date School Degree 1947 Somerville College, Oxford Second-Class Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Chemistry

+Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector, and fellowships Location Date School Position 19708 April 2013 Somerville College, Oxford Honorary Fellow 19932000 College of William and Mary Chancellor

+Honorary degrees Location Date School Degree Gave Commencement Address 27 February 1981 Georgetown University Doctor of Laws (LLD) 1986 University of Buckingham 17 November 1992 Weizmann Institute of Science Doctorate 5 March 1996 Brigham Young University Doctor of Public Service (DPS) 2000 College of William and Mary Doctor of Laws (LLD) 2008 Pepperdine University Doctorate

Memberships and fellowships Location Date Organisation Position 19758 April 2013 Carlton Club Honorary Member 24 October 197915 May 1980 Royal Institute of Chemistry Honorary Fellow (Hon FRIC) 15 May 19808 April 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry 1 July 19838 April 2013 Royal Society Fellow (FRS) 9 November 19838 April 2013 Gray's Inn Honorary Bencher 18 June 19888 April 2013 Law Society of Upper Canada 20068 April 2013 The Heritage Foundation Patron

Magazines In 2019, Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Thatcher for 1982.

Freedom of the City

6 February 1980: Barnet 10 January 1983: Falkland Islands 26 May 1989: London 12 December 1990: Westminster 16 September 1998: Zagreb 11 November 2000: Gdańsk

Awards Location Date Organisation Award 28 February 1981 OSS Society William J. Donovan Award 27 October 1998 Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Ronald Reagan Freedom Award

Places and other things named after Thatcher

Places (Gyumri): Margaret Thatcher Street (Waroona): Thatcher Street (Stanley), Thatcher Drive : Thatcher Peninsula : Madrid: Margaret Thatcher Public School Madrid: Plaza Margaret Thatcher : Grantham: Roberts Hall in Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School Kidderminster: Margaret Thatcher House (Regional Conservative Party Headquarters) Somerville College, Oxford: Margaret Thatcher Centre Chelsea: Margaret Thatcher Infirmary Chelsea: Maggie's Club West Drayton: Thatcher Close (Washington, D.C.): Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation

Other things : Margaret Thatcher Day : Thatcherism The orchid Dendrobium Margaret Thatcher

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