Baroness Thatcher statue
"This historic commission is a very fitting way to remember Margaret Thatcher's time in the House of Commons and I am very pleased to welcome the statue joining those of the other Prime Ministers of the 20th Century in Members' Lobby."
Rt. Hon. Michael Martin MP
Speaker of the House of Commons
On 21st February 2007 sculptor Antony Dufort's bronze statue of Baroness Thatcher was unveiled. Please use the links below to learn more about the statue's creation:
- Introduction
- Commissioning of the statue
- Margaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister
- Antony Dufort - the designing and making of the statue
- Finalising and unveiling
- Official booklet to mark the unveiling (PDF - edited by Malcolm Hay, Curator of Works of Art, Palace of Westminster)
- Baroness Thatcher statue: Introduction
- Baroness Thatcher statue: Commissioning
- Baroness Thatcher statue: Years as Prime Minister
- Baroness Thatcher statue: Dufort on designing and making the statue
- Baroness Thatcher: Finalising and unveiling
Also in this section
- Parliament’s Clock: Big Ben at one hundred and fifty
- People and Parliament: Connecting with Communities Exhibition
- Suffragettes exhibitions
- Gerald Scarfe exhibition
- Bishop Bell exhibition
- Westminster Hall - King's High Table
- Portrait of Tony Blair
- Portrait of Neville Chamberlain
- Portrait of Kenneth Clarke
- Bust of Sir John Major
- Cromwell conservation work
- Slave Trade exhibition
- Potrait of Michael Howard
- Portrait of Ian Paisley
- Photographic commission of Parliamentarians
- Jeremy Thorpe bust
- Prime Minister's busts
- Richard Coeur de Lion conservation work
