# 1937 Kesteven County Council election

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. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; 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.
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 |
| Ancaster | Charles Scoffield | | 180 | n |
| Bassingham | Henry Collin | | | y |
| Bennington | George Edmund Denton | | | y |
| Billingborough | Arthur Wilson | | 283 | n |
| Billingborough | George Sandall | | 195 | n |
| Billingborough | 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 |
| Bracebridge | George Baumber | | 247 | y |
| Branston | Roland Ellis Dean | | | y |
| Bytham | John Turner | | | y |
| Caythorpe | Henry William Newman Fane | | 282 | n |
| Caythorpe | Thomas Reynolds | | 245 | y |
| Claypole | John William Milner | | 328 | y |
| Claypole | 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 |
| Grantham no. 3 | 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 |
| Rippingale | 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 |
| Thurlby | 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
### 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.

### 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).