Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully, he became the top-ranked student. Henry Stokes, master at the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. He was removed from school, and by October 1659, he was to be found at Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, where his mother, widowed by now for a second time, attempted to make a farmer of him. The young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some enmity towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry in a list of sins committed up to the age of 19: "Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them." While Newton was once engaged in his late teens to a Miss Storey, he never married and is believed to have been asexual, being highly engrossed in his studies and work.įrom the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School, Grantham (where his signature can still be seen upon a library window sill). When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabus Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. Born prematurely, he was a small child his mother Hannah Ayscough reportedly said that he could have fit inside a quart mug (˜ 1.1 litre). Newton was born three months after the death of his father, a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. At the time of Newton's birth, England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642.
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