Weston Cracroft Amcotts

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rdf:langString Member of Parliament for Mid Lincolnshire

rdf:langString Weston Cracroft Amcotts (9 March 1815 – 14 July 1883) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Amcotts was born William Cracroft, son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorn and his wife Augusta Ingilby, daughter of Sir John Ingilby, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College. In 1855 he assumed by Royal licence the name of Amcotts when he inherited Kettlethorpe Hall in Lincolnshire from his uncle Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby, 2nd Baronet. He then inherited Hackthorn Hall from his father in 1862 but chose to live at Kettlethorpe after renovating it in 1863. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire and a J.P. for Lindsey, Lincolnshire and was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1861–62. He was a major in the Royal North Lincoln Militia and the Lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers. At the 1868 general election Amcotts was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Lincolnshire. He held the seat until 1874. Amcotts died at the age of 68 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son.