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Hannah Ayscough
Mother of Sir Isaac Newton (1616–1679)
Hannah Ayscough
Hannah Ayscough or Askew or Askeu (circa 1616 - 1679) was Isaac Newton's mother. She was born to a yeoman family near Grantham, in Lincolnshire. Following the death of her first husband, she inherited significant land and farm assets. Her second husband bequeathed her further wealth. She managed her farmland and attendant businesses successfully until her death, leaving all her wealth to her first son Isaac. Professor Yasmin Khan of Oxford University describes her as "an extraordinary 17th-century entrepreneur". Notably, for sheep farming families of the time, though she herself was not educated, Hannah's brother, Rev William Ayscough, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge; her second husband attended Lincoln College, Oxford. Her son Isaac Newton (1643–1727) also went to Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a Professor of Mathematics there (1669–1702) and President of the Royal Society (1703–1727). Unusually, for a 17th-century farming woman, she held independent wealth and managed her...
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