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Constituency of the Old Parliament of Scotland in Highland, Scotland, UK
Dingwall in
Ross-shire was a
burgh constituency that elected one
commissioner to the
Parliament of Scotland and to the
Convention of Estates. After the
Acts of Union 1707, Dingwall,
Dornoch,
Kirkwall,
Tain and
Wick formed the
Tain
district of burghs, returning one member between them to the
House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of burgh commissioners
- 1661–63, 1669–70: Alexander Bayne, provost
[1]
- 1672–74: Rodrick McKenzie, advocate at Edinburgh
[1]
- 1665 convention, 1667 convention: not represented
- 1678 convention: Hugh Mackenzie, merchant-burgess
[2]
- 1681–82: Sir Donald Bayne of Tulloch
[3]
- 1685–86: Donald Dingwall, dean of guild
[4]
- 1689 convention, 1689–1693: Kenneth Mackenzie, merchant burgess, bailie (disqualified 1698)
[5]
- 1698–1702:
Robert Stewart of
Tillicoultry, commissar of Edinburgh
[6]
- 1702–07: John Bayne the younger of Tulloch
[7]
References
- ^
a
b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 574,579.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 583.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 585.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 588.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 596.
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^
G. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. iv (1904)
p. 447.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 601.
See also