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Elgin (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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Parliament of Scotland constituency

Elgin was a burgh constituency that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Elgin, Banff, Cullen, Inverurie and Kintore formed the Elgin district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

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1661–63: Andrew Leslie, bailie
1665 convention: Andrew Young
1667 convention: Robert Martins
1669–72: James Calder of Muirton
1678 convention, 1685–86: David Stewart, baillie
1681–82: John Fyffe, councillor
1689–1701: James Stewart, dean of guild
1702–07: William Sutherland

References

Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 573.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 575.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 577.
G. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, volume IV (1904) p. 348.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 582,586.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 584.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 593.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 599.

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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