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Montrose Burghs was a district of burghs constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1950.

The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to represent the parliamentary burghs of Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Inverbervie.

In 1950, Montrose, Brechin and Inverbervie were merged into North Angus and Mearns, and Arbroath and Forfar were merged into South Angus.

Members of Parliament

Elections

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Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Chalmers resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s

Hume's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: Robert Harcourt
• Unionist: John Hossell Henderson
• Labour: James Maxton

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal National: John Maclay
• Labour: Olive R Crutchley

Elections in the 1940s

References

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2. Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. pp. 52–53.
3. Warwick, William Atkinson (1841). The House of Commons: As Elected to the Fourteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom Being the Second of Victoria. London: Saunders and Otley. p. 131.
4. Simkin, John (August 2014) . "Joseph Hume". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
5. Taylor, Miles; Millington, Chris (13 June 2015) . "Joseph Hume, 1777–1855". Liberal HISTORY. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
6. Fisher, David R. (2009). Fisher, David R. (ed.). "HUME, Joseph (1777–1855), of 38 York Place, Portman Square and 6 Bryanston Square, Mdx. and Burnley Hall, Norf". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
7. Parolin, Christina (2010). Radical Spaces: Venues of popular politics in London, 1790–c. 1845. Canberra: ANU E Press. pp. 162–163. ISBN 9781921862007.
8. "The Montrose District of Burghs". The Scotsman. 7 March 1855. p. 3. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
9. "Review of the Week". Glasgow Sentinel. 10 March 1855. p. 4. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Berkshire Chronicle". 17 March 1855. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
11. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
12. "Nomination for the Montrose District of Burghs". Dundee, Perth, and Cupar Advertiser. 6 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 17 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Montrose". Dundee Courier. 10 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 17 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
14. McIntosh, Iain D. "Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet of Inverquharity". Provincial Grand Lodge of Forfarshire. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
15. Hawkins, Angus (2015). Victorian Political Culture: 'Habits of Heart & Mind'. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-19-872848-1. LCCN 2014951692.
16. ^ "Montrose District of Burghs". Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin review; and Forfar and Kincardineshire advertiser. 6 February 1874. p. 4. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
17. British parliamentary election results, 1885–1918 (Craig)
18. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
19. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
20. ^ Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
21. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
22. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
23. Dundee Courier 29 April 1914
24. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
25. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
26. The Times, 8 December 1923
27. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
28. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
29. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
30. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
31. Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
32. Whitaker's Almanack, 1946

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
• Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889

• Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950
• Politics of Angus, Scotland