Nicholas Parsons show whose audience peaked at over 21 million viewers (a record for an ITV game show). Parsons was born at 1 Castlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire; he was the middle child of the family, having an older brother and a younger sister. His father was a general practitioner whose patients included the family of Margaret Thatcher; claims that he delivered her are unproven. His mother, born in Bristol to a founder of local company W.B. Maggs & Co, was training as a nurse when she met Parsons' father at University College Hospital, London. Parsons was born left-handed but was made to write
Nicholas Thatcher Nicholas Thatcher Nicholas Thatcher is Professor of Oncology at the University of Manchester, in the School of Cancer and Imaging Sciences at the Christie Hospital NHS Trust and Wythenshawe Hospital; he was appointed to the position of Professor in 1996. He received his PhD from Manchester University, after prior education at the University of Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London His specialty is clinical and translational research in renal cell cancer, melanoma and lung cancer. He was investigator in key clinical trials dealing with chemotherapy methods and dosages in small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.