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Ayr (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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Constituency of the Old Parliament of Scotland in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK Not to be confused with Ayr (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Ayr was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Ayr, Campbeltown, Inveraray, Irvine and Rothesay formed the Ayr district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

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1567, 1575, 1578, 1579: John Lockhart of Barr
1604, 1605, 1607, 1609, 1612: John Lockhart of Barr
1644: John Osbourn
1645–47, 1648, 1649: John Kennedy
1649, 1650–51: Hew Kennedy
1661–63, 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: William Cunningham, provost
1678 convention: Robert Doock, provost
1681–82: James Boyll, provost
1685–86: Robert Hunter, provost
1689 (convention), 1689–1702, 1703–07: John Moore, provost

References

^ Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882) p. 218.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 564.
^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 564,568.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. pp. 575, 577, 579.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 582.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 584.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 586.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. pp. 589, 598.

See also

List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union

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Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union 1707

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