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 Thatcher He has written several hundred peer-reviewed papers in major scientific medical journals and has directed several PhD thesis. He is joint editor of the textbook, "New perspectives in lung cancer / edited by Nick Thatcher and Stephen Spiro.", 2nd ed, Edited by Martin Muers, Nicholas Thatcher, Francis Wells & Andrew Miles. London : BMJ Publishing, 1994. . His most cited papers, according to Google Scholar are: Though a professor of oncology he continued to smoke throughout his career stating that it gave him impetus to conduct research into lung cancer. Nicholas Thatcher Nicholas Thatcher is Professor of Oncology at the