He was president of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1917 and as he delivered his address at Holborn Hall, London, the first German air raid took place, with three bombs falling within 500 yards, killing 50 people.

Salvin considered his most important early domestic work was building Harlaxton Manor for Gregory Gregory in the 1840s.

THE literary force behind the American War of Independence and inspiration of

CONTROVERSIAL architect Maxwell Hutchinson came to the publics’ attention

 Augusta Montanari (1818-1864) MADAME Augusta Montanari was born Charlotte Augusta Dalton, in Grantham, the daughter of the landlord of the Nag’s Head and his wife Elizabeth Plummer. (The Gurkha Park restaurant is now on the site). She became the best known wax doll-maker of all time. ly name, and any poured wax English doll was […]

GRANTHAM born Benjamin Coultas was the grandson of James Coultas, who founded the Perseverance Ironworks in Union Street. He worked for his father, also James,

GEOFFREY Lewis Capes, of Stoke Rochford, is a former British, and twice Commonwealth Games shot put champion, and former two-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man title. Capes stood 65(200) and weighed 150kg at his peak condition.

Beverly Allitt (1968- ) BEVERLY Gail Allitt, dubbed the Angel of Death by the national press, went on a killing spree at Grantham Hospital in the spring of 1991. Allitt was born in Corby Glen. She went to the village primary school, Charles Read Secondary School and Grantham College becoming a pupil nurse in April […]

Andrew Paul Moore was a Welsh international lock forward,

NICHOLAS Edward Coleridge Boles was elected as the Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford in May 2011.

WALTER Clifton Lee was a journalist throughout his life, the last 12 of which were as editor of the Grantham Journal.

 Arthur Chambers (1838 -1901) BORN in Chadwell, Leicestershire, he came to Grantham as an apprentice to his uncle John who was a woollen draper at the Exchange Hall, High Street. After leaving for a spell working in Leicester, he returned to Grantham taking over The Warehouse, run by Mr Hart Buck. He opened his own […]

EDITH Smith, the first official police woman in the British Isles, was sworn in at Grantham Police Station in the Guildhall in August 1915

DAVID Roberts is perhaps one of the least known pioneers of engineering.

SIR William Robertson holds the unique distinction of rising from private to field marshal in the British Army

MAJOR-General Donald Isles was Director-General of Weapons

SCULPTRESS Jennie Lipscomb was born in Grantham, the daughter of a colliery agent and a barmaid. She won the Queen’s Prize in 1882 and the National Silver Medal in 1883