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Buteshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Buteshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Buteshire. History From 1708 to 1832 Buteshire and Caithness were paired as ''alternating constituencies'': one of the constituencies elected a Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament, the other to the next. The areas which were covered by the two constituencies are quite remote from each other, Caithness in the northeast of Scotland and Buteshire in the southwest. From 1832 to 1918, Buteshire was represented continuously by its own MP. Boundaries From 1708 to 1832, the Buteshire constituency covered the county of Bute (which historically included the islands of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae) minus the parliamenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buteshire (Parliament Of Scotland Constituency)
Before the Act of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Bute elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. After 1708, Buteshire and Caithness alternated in returning one member the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. List of shire commissioners * 1644: Sir Robert Montgomery of Skelmorlie * 1644–45: Sir James Stewart of Kirktoun, sheriff * 1648: Laird of Kilchattane (Stewart) * 1648: Laird of Kames (Bannatyne) * 1651: Laird of Askog (Stewart) * 1661–63: Sir James Stewart of Kirktoun''Complete Baronetage'', vol. Ip. 322 * 1665 (convention) * 1667 (convention) * 1669–70: Sir Dugald Stewart of Bute * 1669–74, * 1678 (convention) * 1681–82: Ninian Bannantyne of Kames * 1685–86: John Boyle of Kelburn * 1689 (convention) * 1689–93, * 1689–98: David Boyle, later the 1st Earl of Glasgow * 1693–1702: William Stewart of Ambrismore * 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stuart-Mackenzie
James Stuart-Mackenzie PC FRSE FSA (30 October 1718 – 8 April 1800) was a Scottish politician and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. The second son of James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute, he served as Member of Parliament for various Scottish constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1742 to 1780. Stuart-Mackenzie was the list of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Sardinia, British Minister at Turin from 1758 to 1761. He was made a Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Councillor in 1761, and served as Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1763 to 1765, and again from the following year until his death in 1800. Life Born James Stuart, he was a younger son of James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute (before 1696 – 28 January 1723) was the son of James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute and Agnes Mackenzie. Family In February 1711, he married Lady Anne Campbell (daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Campbell (1684–1751)
Lieutenant-General Patrick Campbell ( – 18 February 1751), of South Hall, Argyll, also known as Peter Campbell, was a British Army officer, and Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1741. Early life Campbell was the second son of Duncan Campbell of Whitestone, Kintyre in Argyll. His mother Barbara was a daughter of Hector McAlester of Loup, Argyll. He was probably educated at Glasgow in 1690. He was an officer in Dutch service from about 1704 to 1708 and became major in 4th (Scots) Horse Guards in 1711, and a lieutenant colonel in 1712. He was appointed gentleman of the buttery in 1721 and retained the post for the rest of his life. Career Campbell's family were supporters of the 2nd Duke of Argyll, who arranged his unopposed return at the 1722 British general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buteshire. The seat, whose patron was the county's hereditary sheriff the Earl of Bute, was an alternating constituency with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Campbell, 4th Duke Of Argyll
General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll KT PC (c. 1693 – 9 November 1770), was a British Army officer and Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1761. From 1729 to 1761 he was known as John Campbell of Mamore. Biography The Duke was the son of the Hon. John Campbell of Mamore, the second son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and Elizabeth Elphinstone, daughter of John, 8th Lord Elphinstone. Marriage and children In 1720, Campbell married Mary Drummond Bellenden, daughter of John Drummond Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden of Broughton. They had the following children: * Lady Caroline Campbell (born 12 January 1721, died 17 January 1803) * Field Marshal John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (born June 1723, died 24 May 1806) * Lord Frederick Campbell (born 20 June 1729, died 8 June 1816) * Lord William Campbell (born 1731, died 1778) He acquired Coombe Bank, at Sundridge, near Sevenoaks Kent, where he commissioned Roger Morris t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Montgomerie (died 1725)
John Montgomerie (died 11 March 1725), of Wrae, Linlithgow, was a Scottish businessman, customs farmer and Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1704 to 1707, and in the British House of Commons briefly in 1710. Early life Montgomerie was the fifth son of George Montgomerie of Broomlands, Ayrshire, a minor Scottish laird. He trained as a writer to the signet in 1687. He married Penelope Barclay, daughter of Sir Robert Barclay of Perceton, Ayr on 2 February 1689. His second wife, whom he married in September 1696, was Janet Gray, daughter of Thomas Gray, merchant, of Edinburgh. In 1697 he acquired lands at Wrae in Linlithgowshire, Career Montgomerie was returned as shire commissioner for Linlithgowshire in the Parliament of Scotland in 1704. He was a burgess of Edinburgh from 1706, and a director of the Bank of Scotland from 1706. In 1707, he became a Commissioner of Excise for Scotland. He supported the Union, but after the Union with England in 1707, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dugald Stewart, Lord Blairhall
Dougal or Dugald Stewart, Lord Blairhall MP (c.1658–1712) was a 17th/18th century Scottish judge, politician, and Senator of the College of Justice. Life He was born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute the son of Sir Dougal Stewart MP (d.1670), 2nd baronet of Ardmaleish on Bute, and his wife, Margaret Ruthven, daughter of John Ruthven of Dunglass. His brother James Stewart was the first Earl of Bute. His uncle was Robert Stewart, Lord Tillicultrie. The family were Episcopalians and Royalists, and suffered heavily in the English Civil War. They suffered further in refusing to swear an Oath of Allegiance to King William in 1693 He studied law at Glasgow University from 1687 to 1691 and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1694. From 1702 to 1707 he was MP for Rothesay. He was made a Burgess of Edinburgh in 1703 and of Perth in 1710. He was Sheriff Depute of Edinburghshire ( Midlothian) from 1704 to 1709. He inherited the estate of Blairhall in Longforgan in Perthshire arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmarnock (UK Parliament Constituency)
Kilmarnock was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency included the area of the former parliamentary burgh of Kilmarnock. The parliamentary burgh had been, previously, a component of the Kilmarnock Burghs constituency. Prominent Members for this seat included long-serving Scottish Secretary Willie Ross, and senior judge Craigie Mason Aitchison. Boundaries 1918 to 1950 The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of four constituencies covering the county of Ayr and the county of Bute. Of the other three constituencies, two were county constituencies: Bute and Northern Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. The third, Ayr Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency. All four constituencies were entirely within the boundaries of the two counties. The Kilmarnock constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Ayrshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
South Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1983, when it was abolished. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post voting system. Boundaries The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 provided that the new South Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Kyle and Carrick, consisting of the parishes of Auchinleck, Ayr, Ballantrae, Barr, Colmonell, Coylton, Craigie, Dailly, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Dundonald, Galston, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Mauchline, Maybole, Monkton and Prestwick, Muirkirk, New Cumnock, Newton-on-Ayr, Ochiltree, Old Cumnock, Riccarton, St Quivox, Sorn, Stair, Straiton, Symington and Tarbolton, minus the burghs of Ayr, Prestwick and Troon, which formed a part of the Ayr Burghs constituency. From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county districts of Ayr and Carrick, inclusive of all burghs situated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Ayr
Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire to the north-east, Dumfriesshire to the south-east, and Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire to the south. Like many other counties of Scotland it currently has no administrative function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800. The electoral and valuation area named Ayrshire covers the three council areas of South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire, therefore including the Isle of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. These three islands are part of the historic County of Bute and are sometimes included when the term ''Ayrshire'' is applied to the region. The same area is known as ''Ayrshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Representation Of The People Act 1918
The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act. The Act extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as the right to vote, to men aged over 21, whether or not they owned property, and to women aged over 30 who resided in the constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value above £5, or whose husbands did."6 February 1918: Women get the vote for the first time" BBC, 6 February 2018. At the same time, it extended the local government franchise to include women aged over 21 on the same terms as men. It came into effect at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which was passed on 26 August 1889. The main effect of the act was to establish elected county councils in Scotland. In this it followed the pattern introduced in England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888. County councils The act provided that a county council should be established in each county, consisting of elected councillors. The term "county" was defined as excluding any burgh, but with provisions that the county council would have powers over burghs which met certain criteria: *All burghs which had a population of less than 7,000 at the 1881 census. *Burghs which had more than 7,000 people in 1881 but did not maintain their own police force. *Royal burghs which had more than 7,000 people in 1881 but did not return or contribute towards a member of parliament. As such, there were a number of burghs which were outside the control of county councils, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
