Weston Cracroft-Amcotts

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts, MC, DL, JP (7 November 1888 – 17 September 1975) was an English land-owner, soldier and local politician, who served as Chairman of Lindsey County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Weston Cracroft-Amcotts was born in Lincolnshire[1] on 7 November 1888, the eldest of two sons of Major Frederick Augustus Cracroft-Amcotts, JP (1853–1897), of Kettlethorpe Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife, Emily Grace (died 1936), JP, youngest daughter of Anthony Willson, of South Rauceby Hall, Lincolnshire; his younger brother was Lieutenant-Commander John Cracroft-Amcotts, and their father was the son of Weston Cracroft Amcotts, a Member of Parliament for Mid-Lincolnshire.

[5] He was promoted to Lieutenant on 18 August 1910 and served in Europe during World War I, when he was mentioned in dispatches twice and received the Military Cross,[6][7] before retiring in 1920 with the rank of Major.

[4] Having reached the age limit of liability for recall, he was removed from the reserve of officers in December 1938,[8] but was commissioned as a Major in the 46th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment of the Territorial Army on New Years Day 1939.

[2] He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Lindsey in 1924 and a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1936, before serving as the county's High Sheriff in 1954.