Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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

After the Acts of Union 1707, Wick, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Tain formed the Tain district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1661: William McBaith^[1]
1678, 1681–82, 1685–86: Alexander Manson^[2]
1690–96: Sir Archibald Sinclair^[3]
1702–07: Robert Fraser^[4]

References

Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882).

↑ Foster, p. 223.
↑ Foster, p. 241.
↑ G. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. III (1903) p. 351.
↑ Foster, p. 144.

See also

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

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

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