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] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council;[2] elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the 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
edit| 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:
- "Kesteven County Council: Contests in 8 Divisions". Sleaford Gazette. 26 February 1937. p. 3.
- "Our County Parliaments". Stamford Mercury. 26 February 1937. p. 24.
- "County Council Contests". Grantham Journal. 27 February 1937. p. 11.
- "County Council elections". Grantham Journal. 13 March 1937. p. 6.
By-elections
editApril 1937
editFollowing 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
editThe 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
edit- ^ "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.