 Somervillians have achieved an impressive number of "firsts", both (inter)nationally and at the University of Oxford.The most distinguishable being that of the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher; the first, and only, British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science Dorothy Hodgkin and the first woman to lead the world's largest democracy Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister of India for much of the 1970s.Other notable firsts are Cornelia Sorabji, first female lawyer in India and first Indian national to study at any British university; Anne Warburton, the first female British ambassador; Constance Coltman, Britain's first woman to be an ordained minister; Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp, first female Permanent secretary; Manel Abeysekera, Sri Lanka's first woman diplomat; and Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, first woman to head a major British bank.