The first non-Royal woman to be made Lady Companion of the Garter was Lavinia, duchess of Norfolk in 1990, the second was Baroness Thatcher in 1995 ( post-nominal: LG ).

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher

File: Margaret Thatcher cropped2. png | The Baroness Thatcher LG OM PC FRSserved 1979 – 1990, born 1925

* 26-Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former United Kingdom Prime Minister.

* Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-90 and life peer

A territorial designation is often added to the main peerage title, especially in the case of Barons and Viscounts: for instance, Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, or Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead in the County of Surrey.

Hence, the Baroness Thatcher, a suo jure life peeress, may be referred to as either " Baroness Thatcher " or " Lady Thatcher ".

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Since 1965 only one new baronetcy has been created, that ( on 7 Dec 1990 ), for the husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( now Baroness Thatcher ), Sir Denis Thatcher.

Baronesses in their own right are either titled The Right Honourable The Baroness or The Right Honourable The Lady, mainly based on personal preference ( e. g., Margaret, Lady Thatcher and Brenda, Baroness Hale, both created baronesses in their own right ).

His memorial service — attended by, among others, Baroness Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, John Gouriet, Jeremy Beadle and Roger Bannister – who read the lesson — was held in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, on Thursday 7 October 2004.

The New York Daily News published Michelle Caruso's article " A Goodbye As The Sun Sets In The West " ( June 12, 2004 ) which mentioned Scott who had been seated near former U. K. Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher: " Scott Baio who played Chachi on the hit sitcom Happy Days said: ' President Reagan made me feel proud to be an American.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

His elder daughter, Mary, married John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden.

On 9 December 1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months, with the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood.

It was in this hunting lodge that, on January 30, 1889, he was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera, apparently as a result of suicide.

After the deaths of Prince Rudolf and Baroness Vetsera, the Emperor Franz Joseph, who wanted to found a new church, had the building turned into a convent which was settled by nuns of the Discalced Carmelite Order.

His widow was created Baroness Abercromby of Tullibody and Aboukir Bay, and a pension of £ 2, 000 a year was settled on her and her two successors in the title.

Accordingly he obtained a pension of £ 3000 a year and his wife, Lady Hester Grenville was created Baroness Chatham in her own right-although Pitt refused to accept a title himself.

" In such pamphlets as " Le Godmiché Royal ", ( translated, " The Royal Dildo "), it was suggested that she routinely engaged in deviant sexual acts of various sorts, most famously with the English Baroness ' Lady Sophie Farrell ' of Bournemouth, a renowned lesbian of the time.

He was the son of Captain John Brienen MacLeod ( a descendant of the Gesto branch of the MacLeods of Skye ) and Dina Louisa Baroness Sweerts de Landas.

The son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden by his second, wife Luise Karoline, Baroness Geyer von Geyersberg, who was born into a noble but not reigning family, he only became a Prince in 1817 ( aged 27 ), as part of a new law of succession.

Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner ( Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin ( Countess ) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau ; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914 ) was an Austrian novelist, radical ( organizational ) pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

His daughter Elizabeth de Badlesmere ( 1313 – 8 June 1356 ), was married firstly ( 27 June 1316 ) to Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1302 – 17 December 1331 ), eldest son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville.

Baroness Jenny von Gustedt, born as Jeromée Catharina Rabe von Pappenheim ( 1811 – 1890 ), one of Jérôme Bonaparte's illegitimate children, was the grandmother of the German Socialist and Feminist writer Lily Braun.

* Luns ' spouse Baroness Lia van Heemstra was a niece of baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn.

According to one story, Tatiana, accustomed to being addressed only by her name and patronymic, was so disconcerted when she was addressed as " Your Imperial Highness " by lady-in-waiting Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden when she was heading a committee meeting that she kicked the woman under the table and hissed " Are you crazy to speak to me like that?

She was the sister of Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore, née Anne Arundell, the wife of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who lent her name to Anne Arundel County.

Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.

The exception is a suo jure Baroness ( that is, one holding the dignity in her own right, usually a life peeress ), who may also be called Baroness X in normal speech, though Lady X is also common usage.

As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron and friend, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness.

or unmarried widow / divorced wife of Sir Edward Smith ( could also be referred to as Baroness Smith if referring to the wife of a Baron )

Anno Domine Museum, also in the center is the Anno Domine Museum, which holds equipment of the first settlers, documents, paintings belonging to Baroness Elizabeth von Seller.

She also helped provide funds to purchase a flat in Paris for the destitute Dada artist and writer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

Anjelica also starred in the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster, Ever After: A Cinderella Story alongside Drew Barrymore and Melanie Lynskey as the Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent.

At the time of the marriage, the Baroness was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a divorcée.

The couple were also given the titles, Earl & Countess of Strathearn, and Baron & Baroness Carrickfergus.

Baroness or The Baroness may also refer to:

In addition, former Speakers of the House of Commons ( such as Lord Martin and Baroness Boothroyd ) and former Lord Speakers of the House of Lords ( such as Baroness Hayman ), who by convention are not aligned with any party, also sit as Crossbenchers.

She also collected the Baroness ’ s poems and letters.

While intended as a functioning dairy, its verandas were also designed as a setting for Baroness Mayer de Rothschild's afternoon tea parties.

The Baroness Mary Vetsera, victim of an unsolved murder in nearby Mayerling in which Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg died also, is buried in the village cemetery near Heiligenkreuz.

The army was also accompanied by more than 1, 000 civilians, including a pregnant woman, and Baroness Riedesel with her three small children.

In 1903 the ancient barony of Fauconberg, which had been in abeyance since 1463, was also called out in her favour and she became the seventh Baroness Fauconberg as well.

The story also featured in a discussion in the House of Lords, where Baroness Bacon expressed worries about it being too frightening even for older children.

She was made Baroness Yarmouth at the same time, also in the Peerage of England.