1898 Kesteven County Council election
The fourth set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held in March 1898. 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]
Forty-eight electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888.[5] Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only three divisions.
Results by division edit
Ancaster edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Avery | NA | NA |
Barrowby edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles G. E. Welby JP | NA | NA |
Bassingham edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles C. Curtis | NA | NA |
Bennington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Hutchinson | NA | NA |
Billingborough edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Smith | NA | NA |
Billinghay edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Creasey | NA | NA |
Bourne and Morton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Measures |
Bracebridge edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Jackson | NA | NA |
Branston edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | W. S. Fox | NA | NA |
Bytham edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Williamson | NA | NA |
Caythorpe edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Oxley | NA | NA |
Claypole edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Nevile | NA | NA |
Colsterworth edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Eli Crabtree | NA | NA |
Corby edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Conyers Chapman | 218 | |||
Conservative | Henry Minta | 81 | |||
Turnout | 299 |
Deeping edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Holland | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 1 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Bailey | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 2 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Perkins Coultas | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 3 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arthur Hutchinson | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 4 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rev. George Benson Bowler | NA |
Grantham no. 5 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Long Wand | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 6 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John William Martin | NA | NA |
Grantham no. 7 edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joshua Lincoln | NA | NA |
Great Gonerby edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Newton | NA | NA |
Heckington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Daniel G. Harris | NA | NA |
Heighington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel Oglesby | NA | NA |
Helpringham edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James S. Barber | NA | NA |
Kyme edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | The Earl of Winchelsea | NA | NA |
Martin edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John H. Copping | NA | NA |
Metheringham edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | E. G. Allen | NA | NA |
Morton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John T. Swift | NA | NA |
edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Campbell | NA | NA |
Osbournby edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William A. Cragg | NA | NA |
Ponton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert C. Newton | NA | NA |
Rippingale edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Wellesley Dean | 214 | |||
Liberal | William Bacon | 153 | |||
Turnout | 367 |
Ropsley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J. Cecil Rudkin | NA | NA |
Ruskington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel F. Pattinson | NA | NA |
Skellingthorpe edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Captain George E. Jarvis | NA | NA |
Sleaford East edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Nickolls[nb 1] | NA | NA |
Sleaford West edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William B. Harris | NA | NA |
Stamford All Saints edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Chapman | 268 | ||||
J. Woolston | 239 | ||||
Turnout | 507 |
Stamford St George's edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. S. Loweth | NA | NA |
Stamford St Michael's and St John's edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Major Hart | NA | NA |
Stamford St Martin's and St Mary's edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
G. Higgs | NA | NA |
Thurlby edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Peasgood | NA | NA |
Uffington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | The Lord Kesteven | NA | NA |
Waddington edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colonel R. G. Ellison | NA | NA |
Wellingore edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert N. Moreley | NA | NA |
Wilsford edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard M. Cole | NA | NA |
References edit
Notes edit
Citations 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". Lincolnshire Free Press. 8 March 1898. p. 3. Retrieved 29 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Library.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au "Kesteven County Council". Grantham Journal. 26 February 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 29 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Kesteven". Lincolnshire Free Press. 1 March 1898. p. 3. Retrieved 29 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Kesteven County Council Election". Grantham Journal. 5 March 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 29 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Obituary". Nottingham Evening Post. 5 February 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.