Famous People
Margaret Thatcher, Isaac Newton, Alfred Tennyson and Joseph Banks have all had the pleasure of living in Lincolnshire and the Lincs to the Past team celebrate their achievements here.

DeWint
Lincolnshire landscape artist

Margaret Thatcher
Lincolnshire’s ‘Iron Lady’

Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks is one of Lincolnshire’s most famous sons. Find out more about this world famous botanist and naturalist.

Nelson Dawson
Stamford born artist

James Ward Usher
Lincoln jeweller and collector

Alfred Tennyson
Lincolnshire's Alfred Tennyson was the voice of the Victorian age and is the most quoted English poet after Shakespeare.



