Kintore (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Kintore in Aberdeenshire 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 Kintore, Sir George Allardice, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first Parliament of Great Britain. From the 1708 general election Banff, Cullen, Elgin, Inverurie and Kintore comprised the Elgin district of burghs, electing one Member of Parliament between them.

List of burgh commissioners

1579: Mr Thomas Mollison
1617: Walter Cheyne
1621: John Leslie
1661–63: Mr James Keith
1667 (convention), 1669–74: Mr William Moir [1]
1678 (convention): Adam Pittendreich
1681, 1685–86: John Udny of Newtyle and Cultercullen
1689 (convention), 1690: Hugh Wallace of Ingliston (declared ineligible 1693)
1693–1702: Sir James Scougall of Whitehill
1703–07: Sir George Allardice[2]

See also

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

References

Margaret D. Young, The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners, volume 2, 1993. Appendix 2, page 780.

Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. pp. 577, 579.
David Wilkinson, ALLARDICE (ALLERDYCE), Sir George (1672-1709), of Allardice, Kincardine. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, 2002. Online version accessed 28 July 2013.

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

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