The administrative county of Kesteven (1889–1974), shown within England. Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 6 March 1937. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn , Aveland , Beltisloe , Boothby Graffoe , Flaxwell , Langoe , Loveden , Ness , and Winnibriggs and Threo .[ 1] Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county , governed by a Council;[ 2] Local Government Act 1972 , which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.[ 3] [ 4]
For the 1937 elections, there were contests in 8 divisions: Ancaster, Billingborough, Bracebridge, Caythorpe, Claypole, Grantham no. 3, Rippingale, and Thurlby. In all of the other divisions, only one candidate was nominated and they were returned unopposed.
Results by division
Division
Candidate
Party
Votes
Retiring member
Ancaster
Herbert Jones
395
y
Charles Scoffield
180
n
Bassingham
Henry Collin
y
Bennington
George Edmund Denton
y
Billingborough
Arthur Wilson
283
n
George Sandall
195
n
Fred Smith
155
n
Billinghay
William Skinner
y
Bourne no. 1
Robert Arnold Collins
y
Bourne no. 2
Frederick George Wall
y
Bracebridge
John Coalton Hall
332
n
George Baumber
247
y
Branston
Roland Ellis Dean
y
Bytham
John Turner
y
Caythorpe
Henry William Newman Fane
282
n
Thomas Reynolds
245
y
Claypole
John William Milner
328
y
Rev. Thomas Billingham
181
n
Colsterworth
James Duke Hind
y
Corby
Harry Adcock
n
Cranwell
Rev. Alfred Richings Tucker
n
Deeping St James
Charles Henry Feneley
y
Dunston
Henry Gordon Dean
y
Gonerby and Barrowby
William Horace Brownlow
y
Grantham no. 1
Fred P. Digby
y
Grantham no. 2
Mrs Lilian Basford
y
Grantham no. 3
Mrs D. Schwind
381
y
Mrs S. A. Barnes
Lab
357
n
Grantham no. 4
H. H. Quilter
y
Grantham no. 5
Gordon Foster
y
Grantham no. 6
Mervyn E. Osborn
y
Grantham no. 7
F. W. Topham
y
Grantham no. 8
E. K. Marsland
y
Grantham no. 9
S. T. Roberts
y
Grantham no. 10
E. S. Dunkerton
n
Heckington
George Henry Goose
y
Helpringham
Major William Gilliatt Cragg
y
Kyme
Morris Tonge Chambers
y
Leadenham
Lieutenant-Commander John Cracroft-Amcotts
n
Market Deeping
Charles William Barrand
y
Martin
Henry Wright
n
Metheringham
George Flintham
y
Morton
Herbert Charles Tointon
n
Navenby
John William Raby
y
North Hykeham
George William Hackney
y
Osbournby
George Harold Schwind
n
Ponton
Christopher Hatton Turnor
y
Rippingale
Alfred Everett
397
y
Rev. John Smithson Barstow (Vicar of Aslackby)
173
n
Ropsley
Rev. Cecil St John Wright
y
Ruskington
Edward Cuthbert Allington James
y
Scopwick
Herbert Gibson
y
Skellingthorpe
Richard Hatton Brooks
n
Sleaford no. 1
Henry Hine Foster
y
Sleaford no. 2
Herbert Hutchinson Brown
y
Sleaford no. 3
John William Pattinson
y
Stamford no. 1
Henry Deer
y
Stamford no. 2
Walter Ernest Dodman
y
Stamford no. 3
James Siddall Prior
y
Stamford no. 4
Fred Sindall
y
Stamford no. 5
Ernest Ireson
y
Swinderby
Admiral Robert Cathcart Kemble Lambert
y
Thurlby
Thomas Goodwin Holmes
490
y
Archibald Ward Sharman
263
n
Uffington
Colonel Froude Dillon Trollope-Bellew
y
Washingborough
Frederick Higgs
y
Welby
Philip Henry Selby
y
Wilsford
Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron
y
Woolsthorpe
Oliver Charles Earle Welby
y
Sources:
By-elections
April 1937
Following the death of H. H. Foster, a Holdingham resident and county councillor for the Sleaford no. 1 division, W. Middleton was returned unopposed for his seat on the county council.[ 5]
May 1937
The county councillor for North Hykeham, George William Hackney, died in March 1937 after being kicked by a horse. This prompted a contest to fill the vacancy between George William Hutson, of Hilldersden House, and John Willam Clarke, a former police officer, of Park View, Newark Road. Hutson won with 342 votes against Clarke's 301 (there were 3 spoilt papers).[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
References
^ "Kesteven, Lincolnshire" , A Vision of Britain (University of Portsmouth). Retrieved 21 April 2015.^ Local Government Act 1888, part ii, section 46.1(a) , cf. part v, section 83.10
^ Local Government Act 1888, part i, section 2 , and part vi, section 103
^ Local Government Act 1972, schedule 1
^ a b "Kesteven County Council by-elections" . Lincolnshire Echo . 23 April 1937. p. 4.^ "Three counties reviewed" . Grantham Journal . 20 March 1937. p. 8.^ "North Hykeham County Councillor" . Lincolnshire Echo . 4 May 1937. p. 4.
