Denis Thatcher, (major Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet OF Scotney) (* 10. May 1915 in Lewisham; "† 26 June 2003 in London), was member order OF the Empire, businessman and married man of the former Prime Minister minister of the united Kingdom of, Margaret Thatcher.

Early years, business activity

Denis Thatcher, which visited son of a businessman of New Zealand the Mill Hill Boarding School, which it went off with 18 years, in order to cooperate in the exempt private company of its father. During the Second World War it served in 34. Searchlight regiment of the Royal Engineers, before it was promoted to major. It was twice distinguished and 1945 member of the Orders OF the Empire.

1942 he married Margaret Kempson, from which he could be separated 1948 again. it met 1950 on a meeting of the Conservative party later Margaret Thatcher, at that time Margaret Robert, which it already married in the year after. If it were responded by the press to it, which began in the party to make career, it called it The Boss. But also it became a very successful businessman, that it up to the director of the Burmah oil Trading CO., the chairman von Atlas Preservative CO., the vice-chairman of the Attwoods AG, the director of the Quinton Hazell AG and the advisor of the Amec AG and CSX Corp. brought.

In the footlights

In the public perception partially its ungrateful role dominated private Eye as collecting main for sow-Irish joke figures, approximately in Persiflagen of the satire magazine, where it was karikiert as reactionary gulf players with a Faible for Gin or in the play of John Wells Anyone for Denis. Margaret Thatcher always stressed against it the support, which had received her from her man. Thus it wrote in its autobiography: "I could have been never over 11 years Prime Minister minister, if I had not had Denis at my side." In the year 1991 Denis Thatcher was raised to the hereditary Baronet (1st Baronet OF Scotney in the county Kenternannt), with which his Mrs. Margaret became the lady honour for the sake of. Since then in Great Britain outside of the royal family no hereditary title of nobility was more assigned. After its separating from the House OF Commons became Margaret Thatcher 1992 then as Baroness Thatcher in ago own right a its own, however - allegedly on own desire not hereditary on lifetime grants.

Inheritance

Denis Thatcher had two children, the twins Sir Mark of Thatcher and Carol Thatcher (* 1953). It died with 88 years in London, after it had undergone some months before of a bypass operation. He was buried on 3 July 2003 in Chelsea. In a ring-back signal Tony Blair calls it a "friendly and grossherzigen man, a genuine Gentleman, that many friends possessed here and abroad."

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