Despite Margaret Thatcher having famously described him as " that man who paints those dreadful pictures ", he was the subject of two major Tate retrospectives during his lifetime and received a third in 2008.

In January 1989, the Tate Chairmanship passed to Dennis Stevenson, who had become a Trustee three weeks after Serota assumed office, although initially rejected by Margaret Thatcher who disliked Stevenson's liberal views.

In 1988 he was given an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London at which he exhibited the portrait of Margaret Thatcher, full of iconographic references featuring cameos of Maurice and Charles Saatchi.

Erb's notable students include James Aikman, Margaret Brouwer, Nickitas J. Demos, Houston Dunleavy, David Dzubay, Ken Durling, Tim Geller, Joseph Hallman, John S. Hilliard, Christopher Kaufman, Tom Knab, John Krol, John Mackey, Frank Wiley, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha ' Tate.

Her mother, Josephine, was a florist, and Tate has said that the character of Margaret in The Catherine Tate Show, who shrieks at the slightest of disturbances, is based largely on Josephine.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

This was most obvious in the ' Culture and Personality ' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

The term isotope was coined by Margaret Todd as a suitable name for different atoms that belong to the same element.

His assistant was Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, later replaced by Margaret Fuller.

Alcott was rejected by most public opinion and, by the summer of 1837, he had only 11 students left and no assistant after Margaret Fuller moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and also the grandnephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.

Bostock, who had been held aboard Queen Anne's Revenge, was returned unharmed to Margaret and was allowed to leave with his crew.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

After initial Conservative opposition to Keynesian fiscal policy, this settlement was broadly accepted by all parties until Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979.

Christopher Soames, Britain's Ambassador to France during the government of Edward Heath and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, remarked that " Mrs. Thatcher was not really running a team.

However, in the 1980s, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, and the influence of Keith Joseph, there was a dramatic shift in the ideological direction of British conservatism, with a movement towards free-market economic policies.

When her friend Margaret Bush-Brown insisted that Les Derniers was good enough to be exhibited at the famed Paris Salon, Beaux relented and sent the painting abroad in the care of her friend, who managed to get the painting into the exhibition.

The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

The division between the United Kingdom during the government of Margaret Thatcher which resisted the call for sanctions and African Commonwealth countries was intense at times and led to speculation that the organization might collapse.

It was at one of these in 1952 he became acquainted with fellow exhibitor Margaret Wynnfred Williams ( 1917-March 10, 1993 ), nicknamed Garé.

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

In April 2006, Margaret Witt, a major in the United States Air Force who was being investigated for homosexuality filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the grounds that DADT violates substantive due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and procedural due process.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

In Europe, in fact, it was often the female members of the Order, such as Catherine of Siena, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Christine of Stommeln, Margaret Ebner, and Elsbet Stagl, that gained reputations for having mystical experiences.

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

Queen Margaret University was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson.

* Mystic Meg, astrologer, born in the town as Margaret Anne Lake in 1952

Lineker was born in Leicester to Barry and Margaret Lineker ( both born 1939 ).

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

Lynch was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the fifth of William and Margaret Lynch's six children.

* Margaret Howell, born February 25, 1855.

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931 ) is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine ( now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine ), France, the daughter of Margaret ( née Petit ), an American dancer on Broadway, and Claude Caron, a French chemist.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

Margaret Murray was born in Calcutta, India on 13 July 1863.

Margaret Sanger was born as Margaret Higgins in Corning, New York.

Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia, who was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family.

Margaret Mitchell was born in her grandmother Annie Stephens's house on Cain Street in Atlanta, just around the corner from the Mitchells ' home on Jackson Street.

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Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, to John Pepys ( 1601 – 1680 ), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ( née Kite ; d. 1667 ), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher.

In 1975 Milligan fathered a son, James ( born June 1976 ), in an affair with Margaret Maughan.

Edmund's son Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke, grew up in south Wales and in exile in Brittany, while his mother Lady Margaret remained in England and remarried, quietly advancing the cause of her son in a Kingdom now ruled by the rival House of York.

* August 21 – Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, was born.

Margaret was born Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, her mother's ancestral home.