Kirkcudbright (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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

List of burgh commissioners

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  • 1700–07: Andrew Hume[1]

After the Acts of Union 1707, the commissioner for Kirkcudbright was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain.[1] From 1708 Kirkcudbright, Annan, Dumfries, Lochmaben and Sanquhar formed the Dumfries district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

References

  1. 1 2 David Wilkinson, HUME, Hon. Sir Andrew (1676-1730), of Kimmerghame, Berwick. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).

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