Weston Cracroft Amcotts

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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 license the name of Amcotts.

He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire and a J.P. for Lindsey, Lincolnshire and was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1861.

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.