Grantham and eminent past students. Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, attended Kesteven and Grantham, and Isaac Newton famously attended The King's. Both have remained single-sex up to the age of 16. In 1970, Kesteven County Council (based in Sleaford) announced plans to turn the grammar schools into co-educational comprehensives for ages of 11–16 and leave Grantham College the only sixth form for the town. Later it was proposed to create two sixth-form colleges from one of the grammar schools. Other parts of Kesteven became comprehensive but responsibility for education passed to Lincolnshire under the local government reorganization of 1974,
Nicholas Parsons he was awarded an honorary LLD by the university in 1991. He was also awarded an honorary DA by the University of Leicester in 2007, and an honorary DL by the University of Lincoln in 2014. He held the Guinness World Record for the longest after-dinner speech (11 hours) until it was reclaimed by former holder Gyles Brandreth. On November 25, 2018, at the Grosvenor House hotel Parsons was announced to be "King Rat" of the Grand Order of Water Rats for 2019. Nicholas Parsons Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and