Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ was an English businessman. Married to Margaret Thatcher, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Granted the Thatcher baronetcy in 1990, Thatcher is the most recent commoner to have been awarded a hereditary title. Thatcher married twice, during wartime to Margaret Doris Kempson in 1942, and in 1951 to Margaret Roberts. In 1953, they had twin children who were born on August 15, 1953.
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Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ was an English businessman. Married to Margaret Thatcher, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Granted the Thatcher baronetcy in 1990, Thatcher is the most recent commoner to have been awarded a hereditary title. Thatcher married twice, during wartime to Margaret Doris Kempson in 1942, and in 1951 to Margaret Roberts. In 1953, they had twin children who were born on August 15, 1953. Denis Thatcher won the general election to become the first husband of a British prime minister in British history in 1979. In 1976, he revealed it at a Paint Trades Federation function in Dartford, Dartford. In February 1949, he met Margaret Hilda Roberts, the first chemist and newly selected parliamentary candidate for Dartford in the General Election. He was awarded an MBE on 20 September 1945, and was awarded for his efforts in initiating and supporting Operation Goldflake, the transfer of I Canadian Corps from Italy to the north-west European theatre of operations. His wife told him she had met someone else and wanted a divorce. Thatcher was so traumatised by the event that he completely refused to talk about his first marriage or the separation, even to his daughter, as she states in her 1995 biography of him. In 1997, he was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his service in the Second World War.
He also received the French approximate equivalent of a mention when he was cited in orders at Corps d’Armée level for his. efforts in promoting smooth relations between the Commonwealth military forces and the French civil and military authorities. In 2007, he became the first man to be awarded a knighthood for services in the First World War, for his work in the Battle of the Bulge. He died in a car crash on the Aberystwyth motorway in Wales in 2008. He is buried in the Walthamstow Cemetery, north London, with his wife Margaret and their two children, Charlotte and James. He has also been awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services in World War II. In 2011, Thatcher was awarded a CBE for services to the armed forces, for which he served as a captain in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. In 2012 he was knighted for his role in the Falklands War, and in 2013 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of the Military Order of Britain. He had a son and a daughter, Charlotte, who were both born on 15 August 1953, and a son, James, who was born on 17 August 1955, and now lives in the south of England with his second wife, Baroness Thatcher. The couple had two children: Charlotte, and James, a barrister, and daughter-in-law Margaret Roberts, who is also a Baronet.
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