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 Todd English resort town of Bath. In 1812, Todd purchased Buncrana, a town in Inishowen, County Donegal, in his native Ulster, from the trustees of the bankrupt estate of The 2nd Marquess of Donegall. Todd never married, and most of his estate was left to his nephews. But, through a relationship with his housekeeper, Jane Kyle, he was the father of one daughter whom he recognized as his child and provided for in his will. He was a close friend of the explorer Alexander Henry, and his 'wife' sponsored Henry's youngest child. Todd's daughter by Jane Kyle, Isaac Todd Isaac Todd