Oxford University Conservative Association Oxford University Conservative Association The Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) is a student Conservative association founded in 1924, whose members are drawn from the University of Oxford. Since October 2009, OUCA has been affiliated to Conservative Future, the Conservative Party youth wing. Until her death on 8 April 2013, the Patron of the association was Margaret Thatcher. In the summer of 2015, Sir John Major became the new patron of the association. The Honorary President is Jacob Rees-Mogg. OUCA alumni include many prominent Conservative Party figures, including former Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers. Among them are William Hague, Jeremy Hunt
Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom Ministers, including Thatcher, received it after serving office. As of , the only currently living Knight among them is John Major, knighted in 2005. The first and so far only Prime Minister to have received a British gallantry award was Sir Anthony Eden who won the Military Cross (MC) while serving in the army in the First World War, before entering parliament. After Sir Robert Walpole, three other Prime Ministers have been in office at a time when no former Prime Ministers were alive: After Lord Wilmington, eleven other Prime Ministers have been in office at a time when only