Lieutenant-Commander John Cracroft-Amcotts, DSC, DL, JP (3 January 1891 – 30 May 1956) was an English landowner, soldier and local politician, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
[1] Cracroft-Amcotts married, on 12 February 1930, May, widow of Frederic Martin Campbell and daughter of H. Redfearn-Shaw, an officer in the Malayan Civil Service; they had three daughters: Barbara Anne (born 1932, married Peter Hugh Davies), Erica Sylvia (born and died 1934) and Gillian Verity (1936–2019).
[5] Cracroft-Amcotts served in Europe during World War I and, on 1 October 1917, received the Distinguished Service Cross;[6] he was also mentioned in dispatches twice.
Cracroft-Amcotts also served as a Justice of the Peace (from 1933),[7] High Sheriff of Lincolnshire (in 1937) and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county (from 1951),[2] as well as chairman and then president of the Grantham and Sleaford Divisional Conservative Association.
[7] A keen angler, shooter, carpenter and painter, Cracroft-Amcotts carved and painted the shield of Kesteven County Council and presented it to hang in the authority's chamber.