Vincent Grantham (by 1496 – 1550), of

Goltho Goltho is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population (including Bullington) was 157 at the 2011 census. It is situated south-west from Wragby, and south from the A158 road. Wragby and Goltho Limewood Walk, ...

and

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, was an English

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. He was born the eldest son of Edward Grantham of Lincoln and educated in the Law at

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(1510). He was elected Mayor of Lincoln for 1527–28 and 1541–42 and a

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(MP) of the

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for

in 1529 and 1536. He married three times and had 3 sons and 6 daughters. His eldest son was

Thomas Grantham Sir Thomas Grantham (bap. 1641 – 1718 non.br>‘Grantham, Sir Thomas (bap. 1641, d. 1718)’ rev. Peter Le Fevre, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 8 Sept 2008) was a ...

, also an MP and Mayor of Lincoln.

References

15th-century births 1550 deaths Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lincoln Mayors of Lincoln, England Members of Lincoln's Inn English MPs 1529–1536 English MPs 1536 {{1529-England-MP-stub