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.
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 |
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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]
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]