Grantham Grantham Grantham ( ) is a town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It straddles the London–Edinburgh East Coast Main Line and the River Witham and is bounded to the west by the A1 north–south trunk road. Grantham lies about south of the county town, the City of Lincoln and about east of Nottingham. The population in 2016 was put at 44,580 Grantham was the birthplace of the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Isaac Newton was educated at its King's School, while Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1790s. Grantham-born Edith Smith became the
Isaac Newton Watt Isaac Newton Watt Isaac Newton Watt (1821–1886) was a soldier, merchant and a Member of Parliament in Taranaki, New Zealand, in the mid to late 19th century. He was born in London some time in 1821, the son of Isaac Watt the land surveyor and Susanna Dunlop. His father Isaac (b. 1782) was born in Whitby, and was the son of a famous Whitby mariner, James Watt (b 1742). Isaac Newton Watt was the fourth of Isaac and Susanna's thirteen children. He studied medicine at St Bartholemew's Hospital in London, but ran out of money and could not complete the