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Grantham

British

/ ˈɡrænθəm /

noun

a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)

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The four animals are expected to help return the West Glen River near Grantham to a more natural course after centuries of being straightened and deepened to drain farmland.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Jeremy Grantham has a new and provocative argument for why the U.S. stock market will produce mediocre returns this year.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

“Natural gas accounts, in my opinion, for like 100% of the unexpected American surge in relative GDP,” said Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and long-term investment strategist at Boston money-manager GMO.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Fund manager Jeremy Grantham and financial historian Edward Chancellor released an essay last week that didn’t mince words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Humphrey Babington was a Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, but spent most of his time at Boothby Pagnall, near Grantham, where he was rector.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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