Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)

Kinross-shire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Kinross-shire
1708–1832
Number of members one
Replaced by Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire
Created from Kinross-shire

Kinross-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

The constituency

Kinross-shire was Scotland's second-smallest county, and was paired as an alternating constituency with neighbouring Clackmannanshire. The freeholders of Kinross-shire elected one Member of Parliament to one Parliament, while those of Clackmannanshire elected a Member to the next.

Abolition

The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 abolished the alternating constituencies. Kinross-shire was merged with Clackmannanshire into the single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, electing one Member between them to each Parliament.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberNotesRef
1708none
16 October 1710Mungo GrahamGraham's election was overturned on petition and Malcolm replaced him.[1]
10 February 1711Sir John Malcolm, 1st Baronet[1]
1713none
28 February 1715William Douglas [2]
1722none
9 November 1727John Hope
(succeeded as Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet, in 1729)		 [2][3]
1734none
21 May 1741Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet [2]
1747none
25 April 1754Robert Colvile [4]
1761none
5 April 1768Robert Adam [4]
1774none
30 September 1780George Graham [4]
1784none
6 July 1790George Graham [5]
1796none
2 August 1802William Douglas Maclean ClephaneAppointed Commissioner at Trinidad, April 1803.[5][6]
23 August 1803David Clephane [5]
1806none
16 May 1807William AdamChose to sit for Kincardineshire.[5]
17 August 1807David ClephaneAppointed a Commissioner of the Excise for Scotland, March 1811.[5][7]
25 June 1811Thomas Graham [5]
1812none
6 July 1818Thomas GrahamDied 28 July 1819.[5][8]
16 September 1819George Edward Graham [5]
1820none
28 June 1826George Edward Graham [9]
1830none
20 May 1831Charles Adam [9]

References

  1. 1 2 D. W. Hayton, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).
  2. 1 2 3 Paula Watson, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).
  3. ↑ Paula Watson, HOPE, John (c.1684-1766), of Culdraines. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).
  4. 1 2 3 Edith, Lady Haden-Guest, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R. G. Thorne, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
  6. ↑ R. G. Thorne, MACLEAN CLEPHANE, William Douglas (1759-1803), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
  7. ↑ R. G. Thorne, CLEPHANE, David (b.c.1760), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
  8. ↑ J. W. Anderson, GRAHAM, Thomas II (1752-1819), of Kinross House, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
  9. 1 2 Margaret Escott, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).
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