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Bucks County Council election, 1907
BCC elections were held every three years. The previous one was in 1904.
Buckingham Advertiser, 2 March
WINSLOW DIVISION.
The Rev. A. E. T. Newman, Vicar of Grandborough, is to be opposed by Mr. T. Biggs, J.P., Chairman of the Winslow Board of Guardians and Rural District Council. Candidates-
BIGGS, Thomas, farmer, North Marston.
Proposers- Mr. Ralph Chapman, Mr. Sidney Moberly, M. John Holdom, and Mr. Norman McCorquodale.
Seconders- Mr. Edwin Kibble, Mr. William Samuel Neal, Mr. Cornelius Colgrove, Mr. Silvanus Jones.
NEWMAN, Rev. A. E. T., Vicar of Grandborough.
Proposers- Margaret Verney and the Rev. H. Kerby Byard.
Seconders- Mr. William Redmond Monk and the Rev. John Riordan.
Bucks Herald, 16 March
DIVISION XVI. - WINSLOW, &c.
Mr. T. E. Biggs 348
Rev. A. E. T. Newman 271
Majority 77
This contest was waged partly on political lines and partly on the education question, it being contended that the policy of the Education Committee, of which Mr. Newman has been one of the vice-chairmen, has had a good deal to do with the present high rates. Mr. Biggs is chairman of the Winslow Rural District Council, and a Conservative in politics.
Buckingham Advertiser, 16 March
Another interesting contest was that in the Winslow Division, where Mr. Thomas Biggs, of North Marston, farmer, Chairman of the Winslow Rural District Council and Board of Guardians, entered the lists against the Rev. A. E. T. Newman, Vicar of Grandborough. Here, as at Wolverton, the retiring member was defeated. This was not because in either case they had been remiss in their duties. The very reverse is the fact. It is rather to be found in the general desire for a limit to be placed to the constantly increasing rates. At the meeting of the Buckingham Board of Guardians last Saturday the Clerk remarked that the increasing county rate was on the wrong side. But Sir Edmund Verney questioned this, especially, he said. if the ratepayers received value for their money. The latter is a point on which there is a wide divergence of opinion.
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