Editing Margaret Thatcher (section)

==Titles, awards and honours==
{{Main|List of honours of Margaret Thatcher}}
[[File:Margaret Thatcher awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.jpg|thumb|alt=Thatcher standing with George H. W. Bush|Receiving the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 1991]]
Thatcher became a [[privy counsellor (United Kingdom)|privy counsellor]] (PC) on becoming a secretary of state in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gay |first1=Oonagh |last2=Rees |first2=Anwen |name-list-style=amp |date=5 July 2005 |title=The Privy Council |url=http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-3708.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227183508/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-3708.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2011 |access-date=27 February 2009 |publisher=Parliament and Constitution Centre |via=the [[House of Commons Library]]}}</ref> She was the first woman entitled to full membership rights as an honorary member of the [[Carlton Club]] on becoming Conservative Party leader in 1975.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ungoed-Thomas |first=Jon |date=8 February 1998 |title=Carlton Club to vote on women |work=The Sunday Times}}</ref>

As prime minister, Thatcher received two honorary distinctions:
* {{Timeline-event |date={{Start date|df=y|1979|10|24}} |event=Honorary Fellowship of the [[Royal Institute of Chemistry]] ({{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|HonFRIC}}),<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 October 1979 |title=Speech to the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry (honorary fellowship) |url=http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104152 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530200036/http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104152 |archive-date=30 May 2016 |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=Margaret Thatcher Foundation}}</ref> which was merged into the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] the following year;<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2016 |title=Our origins |url=http://www.rsc.org/about-us/our-history/our-origins/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702064508/http://www.rsc.org/about-us/our-history/our-origins/ |archive-date=2 July 2018 |access-date=11 September 2018 |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry}}</ref> and}}
* {{Timeline-event |date={{Start date|df=y|1983|7|1}} |event=Fellowship of the [[Royal Society]] ({{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS}}), a point of controversy among some of the then Fellows.{{sfnmp|''New Scientist''|1983|Agar|2022}}}}

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Two weeks after her resignation, Thatcher was appointed [[Member of the Order of Merit]] (OM) by the Queen. Thatcher's husband, Denis, was [[Thatcher baronets|made a hereditary baronet]] at the same time;<ref name="OMBarontecy">{{London Gazette |issue=52360 |date=11 December 1990 |page=19066 |nolink=yes}}</ref> as his wife, Thatcher was entitled to use the [[Style (form of address)|honorific style]] "Lady",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family of a Baronet |url=http://www.debretts.com/forms-address/titles/baronet/family-baronet |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315235601/http://www.debretts.com/forms-address/titles/baronet/family-baronet |archive-date=15 March 2015 |access-date=2 February 2015 |website=[[Debrett's]]}}</ref> an automatically conferred title that she declined to use.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tuohy |first=William |author-link=William Tuohy |date=8 December 1990 |title=It's Now 'Lady Thatcher', but She'll Stick With 'Mrs.' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-08-mn-5367-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306135614/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-08/news/mn-5367_1_lady-thatcher |archive-date=6 March 2017 |access-date=5 March 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |location=London, UK}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=9 December 1990 |title=Headliners; Call Her Mrs. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/weekinreview/headliners-call-her-mrs.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304201415/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/weekinreview/headliners-call-her-mrs.html |archive-date=4 March 2019 |access-date=23 April 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Orth |first=Maureen |author-link=Maureen Orth |date=June 1991 |title=Maggie's Big Problem |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1991/06/thatcher199106 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104074036/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1991/06/thatcher199106 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |access-date=11 April 2017 |magazine=Vanity Fair |quote=Since he was now a baronet, might she care to be known as Lady Thatcher?}}</ref> She would be made Lady Thatcher in her own right on her subsequent [[ennoblement]].<ref name="Tuohy">{{Cite news |last=Tuohy |first=William |date=6 June 1992 |title='Iron Lady' Is Made Baroness Thatcher |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-06-mn-552-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412061757/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-06/news/mn-552_1_baroness-thatcher |archive-date=12 April 2017 |access-date=11 April 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |location=London, UK}}</ref>

In the Falklands, [[Margaret Thatcher Day]] has been marked each 10&nbsp;January since 1992,<ref name="Reuters-January">{{Cite news |date=6 January 1992 |title=Falklands to make 10 January Thatcher Day |agency=Reuters}}</ref> commemorating her first visit to the Islands in January 1983, six months after the [[Aftermath of the Falklands War|end of the Falklands War]] in June 1982.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 August 2014 |title=Margaret Thatcher in Falkland Islands after Argentina's surrender, 1983 |url=http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/margaret-thatcher-falkland-islands-argentina-surrender-1983 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016054413/http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/margaret-thatcher-falkland-islands-argentina-surrender-1983/ |archive-date=16 October 2016 |access-date=9 October 2016 |website=Rare Historical Photos}}</ref>

Thatcher became a [[member of the House of Lords]] in 1992 with a [[life peer]]age as Baroness Thatcher, of [[Kesteven]] in the [[County of Lincolnshire]].{{r|lords}}<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=52978 |date=26 June 1992 |page=11045 |nolink=yes}}</ref> Subsequently, the [[College of Arms]] granted her use of a [[Armorial of prime ministers of the United Kingdom|personal coat of arms]]; she was allowed to revise these arms on her appointment as [[Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter]] (LG) in 1995, the UK's highest order of [[chivalry]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54017 |date=25 April 1995 |page=6023 |nolink=yes}}</ref>

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| Pre–Garter appointment|| style="width:.2em;"|
| colspan=2|Post–Garter appointment
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| 1992–1995||
| [[Lozenge (heraldry)|Lozenge]]: 1995–2013
| [[Escutcheon (heraldry)|Escutcheon]]: 1995–2013
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In the US, Thatcher received the [[Ronald Reagan Freedom Award]] from the [[Reagan Presidential Foundation]] in 1998;<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ronald Reagan Freedom Award |url=https://www.reaganfoundation.org/programs-events/the-ronald-reagan-freedom-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104052308/https://www.reaganfoundation.org/programs-events/the-ronald-reagan-freedom-award/ |archive-date=4 January 2018 |access-date=19 July 2017 |publisher=[[Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation]]}}</ref> she was designated a patron of [[the Heritage Foundation]] in 2006,<ref>{{Cite report |url=http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/demint-on-lady-thatcher-freedoms-champion |title=Jim DeMint on Lady Thatcher |publisher=The Heritage Foundation |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630181752/http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/demint-on-lady-thatcher-freedoms-champion |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=unfit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Baroness Thatcher |url=http://www.heritage.org/about-heritage/staff/leadership/nonstaff/t/baroness-thatcher |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625154102/http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/nonstaff/t/baroness-thatcher |archive-date=25 June 2013 |access-date=20 July 2017 |publisher=The Heritage Foundation}}</ref> where she established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ros-Lehtinen |first=Ileana |author-link=Ileana Ros-Lehtinen |date=13 September 2006 |title=Honoring the Iron Lady |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/sep/13/20060913-085945-8112r/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423033402/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/sep/13/20060913-085945-8112r/ |archive-date=23 April 2018 |access-date=22 April 2018 |work=The Washington Times}}</ref>