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
Ancaster
Ancaster[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
William Avery
NA
NA
Barrowby
Barrowby[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Charles G. E. Welby JP
NA
NA
Bassingham
Bassingham[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Charles C. Curtis
NA
NA
Bennington
Bennington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
William Hutchinson
NA
NA
Billingborough
Billingborough[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Edward Smith
NA
NA
Billinghay
Billinghay[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
John Creasey
NA
NA
Bourne and Morton
Bourne and Morton[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
James Measures
Bracebridge
Bracebridge[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Hugh Jackson
NA
NA
Branston
Branston[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
W. S. Fox
NA
NA
Bytham
Bytham[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Thomas Williamson
NA
NA
Caythorpe
Caythorpe[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
William Oxley
NA
NA
Claypole
Claypole[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
George Nevile
NA
NA
Colsterworth
Colsterworth[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
Eli Crabtree
NA
NA
Corby
Corby[7][8]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Conyers Chapman
218
Conservative
Henry Minta
81
Turnout
299
Deeping
Deeping[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
William Holland
NA
NA
Grantham no. 1
Grantham no. 1[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
William Bailey
NA
NA
Grantham no. 2
Grantham no. 2[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
James Perkins Coultas
NA
NA
Grantham no. 3
Grantham no. 3[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Arthur Hutchinson
NA
NA
Grantham no. 4
Grantham no. 4[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Rev. George Benson Bowler
NA
Grantham no. 5
Grantham no. 5[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
William Long Wand
NA
NA
Grantham no. 6
Grantham no. 6[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
John William Martin
NA
NA
Grantham no. 7
Grantham no. 7[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Joshua Lincoln
NA
NA
Great Gonerby
Gonerby[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Thomas Newton
NA
NA
Heckington
Heckington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
Daniel G. Harris
NA
NA
Heighington
Heckington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Samuel Oglesby
NA
NA
Helpringham
Helpringham[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
James S. Barber
NA
NA
Kyme
Kyme[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
The Earl of Winchelsea
NA
NA
Martin
Martin[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
John H. Copping
NA
NA
Metheringham
Metheringham[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
E. G. Allen
NA
NA
Morton
Morton[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
John T. Swift
NA
NA
Navenby
Navenby[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Andrew Campbell
NA
NA
Osbournby
Osbournby[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
William A. Cragg
NA
NA
Ponton
Ponton[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Robert C. Newton
NA
NA
Rippingale
Rippingale[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Arthur Wellesley Dean
214
Liberal
William Bacon
153
Turnout
367
Ropsley
Ropsley[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
J. Cecil Rudkin
NA
NA
Ruskington
Ruskington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Samuel F. Pattinson
NA
NA
Skellingthorpe
Skellingthorpe[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Captain George E. Jarvis
NA
NA
Sleaford East
Sleaford East[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
John Nickolls[nb 1]
NA
NA
Sleaford West
Sleaford West[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
William B. Harris
NA
NA
Stamford All Saints
Stamford All Saints[6][5]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Charles Chapman
268
J. Woolston
239
Turnout
507
Stamford St George's
Stamford St George's[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
J. S. Loweth
NA
NA
Stamford St Michael's and St John's
Stamford St Michael's and St John's[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Major Hart
NA
NA
Stamford St Martin's and St Mary's
Stamford St Martin's and St Mary's[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
G. Higgs
NA
NA
Thurlby
Thurlby[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
Robert Peasgood
NA
NA
Uffington
Uffington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
The Lord Kesteven
NA
NA
Waddington
Waddington[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Colonel R. G. Ellison
NA
NA
Wellingore
Wellingore[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
Robert N. Moreley
NA
NA
Wilsford
Wilsford[6]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Richard M. Cole
NA
NA
References
Notes
^He died aged 75 on 3 February 1901, shortly before the next election.[9]
Citations
^"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
^ ab"Kesteven". Lincolnshire Free Press. 8 March 1898. p. 3. Retrieved 29 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Library.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatau"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.