Stirling (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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

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

The Parliament of Scotland ceased to exist with the Act of Union 1707, and the commissioner for Stirling, John Erskine, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first Parliament of Great Britain. From the 1708 general election Culross, Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, Stirling and Queensferry comprised the Stirling district of burghs, electing one Member of Parliament between them.

List of burgh commissioners

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1474: James Shaw of Sauchie
1572 convention: James Shaw
1612: John Sherar
1612, 1617 convention, 1617: John Williamson, town clerk
1621: Duncan Paterson
1625 convention: John Cowan
1628–33, 1630 convention, 1639–41, 1643–44, 1644–46, 1648: Thomas Bruce, provost
1646–47, 1648–51: John Shorte, sometime provost
1651: John Cowan
1661–63, 1665 convention: Duncan Nairn, provost
1667 convention: James Steinston
1669–74: James Stevenson, provost
1678 convention, 1681–82: Robert Russell, provost
1685–86: John McCulloch, provost
1689 convention, 1689–90: Hugh Kennedy of Schelloch (died c.1690)
1693–95: John Dick (expelled 1695 for menaces)
1696–97: Patrick Thompson, treasurer of Edinburgh (died 1698)
1697–1702: Francis Napier of Craigannet, provost
1702–07: John Erskine

^ Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882) p. 313.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 550,551,552.
^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 554.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 555,557,561,564,567,571.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 574,576.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 578.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 581.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 583,585.
Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 588.
^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 590,597.
D. W. Hayton, ERSKINE, John (1660-1733), of the Sand Haven, Culross, Fife. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, 2002. Online version accessed 28 July 2013.

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Burghs	Aberdeen Annan Anstruther Easter Anstruther Wester Arbroath Auchterarder Ayr Banff Berwick Brechin Burntisland Campbeltown Crail Cromarty Cullen Culross Cupar Dingwall Dornoch Dumbarton Dumfries Dunbar Dundee Dunfermline Dysart Edinburgh Elgin Forfar Forres Fortrose Glasgow Haddington Inveraray Inverbervie Inverkeithing Inverness Inverurie Irvine Jedburgh Kilrenny Kinghorn Kintore Kirkcaldy Kirkcudbright Kirkwall Lanark Lauder Linlithgow Lochmaben Montrose Nairn New Galloway North Berwick Peebles Perth Pittenweem Queensferry Renfrew Rothesay Rutherglen St Andrews Sanquhar Selkirk Stirling Stranraer Tain Whithorn Wick Wigtown
Shires	Aberdeen Argyll Ayr Banff Berwick Bute Caithness Clackmannan Cromarty Dumbarton Dumfries Edinburgh Elgin and Forres Fife Forfar Haddington Inverness Kincardine Kinross Kirkcudbright Lanark Linlithgow Nairn Orkney and Shetland Peebles Perth Renfrew Ross Roxburgh Selkirk Stirling Sutherland Tarbert Wigtown

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

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