page_title: Charles Amcotts
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Amcotts / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Kettlethorpe Hall
context_page_description: Charles Amcotts, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1777.
context_section_description: Amcotts  was the son of Vincent Amcotts and his wife Elizabeth Quincey, daughter of John Quincey of Aslackby, Lincolnshire and was baptised 25 June 1729. He was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on  29 April 1746 but was expelled on 9 June 1749 for drinking the health of the Young Pretender. In 1763 he was created DCL at Oxford University. He inherited the Lincolnshire properties of Harrington Hall from his father and Kettlethorpe Hall from his father's step-brother and was picked High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1753–54.
caption: Kettlethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire
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