Banff was a
burgh constituency
A burgh constituency is a type of parliamentary constituency in Scotland. It is a constituency which is predominantly urban, and on this basis has been designated as a burgh constituency. They are the successors of the historic parliamentary bur ...
that elected one
commissioner
A commissioner (commonly abbreviated as Comm'r) is, in principle, a member of a commission or an individual who has been given a commission (official charge or authority to do something).
In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to in ...
to the
Parliament of Scotland
The Parliament of Scotland ( sco, Pairlament o Scotland; gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century from the king's council o ...
and to the
Convention of Estates
The Convention of Estates of Scotland was a sister institution to the Scottish Parliament which sat from the early sixteenth century. Initially it was only attended by the clergy and nobles, but the burgh commissioners were later added. The Conven ...
.
After the
Acts of Union 1707
The Acts of Union ( gd, Achd an Aonaidh) were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act 1707 passed by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the t ...
, Banff,
Cullen,
Elgin,
Inverurie
Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen.
Geography
Inverurie is in the va ...
and
Kintore formed the
Elgin district of burghs
The Act of Union 1707 and pre-Union Scottish legislation provided for 14 Members of Parliament (MPs) from Scotland to be elected from districts of burghs. All the parliamentary burghs (burghs represented in the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland) ...
, returning one member between them to the
House of Commons of Great Britain
The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the third estate of the ...
.
List of burgh commissioners
* 1543: Walter Ogilvy
[
* 1587: Thomas Ogilvy][Foster, p. 278.]
* 1621: Alexander Craig
* 1628–33: Andrew Baird[Foster, p. 21.]
* ''1630 convention: not represented''
* 1639–41: Andrew Baird (until 1641);[ then Alexander Douglas (in 1641)][Foster, p. 98.]
* 1643–44 convention: Alexander Douglas[
* 1644–47: Alexander Douglas (until 1645);][ Gilbert Moir (from 1646)][Foster, p. 253.]
* 1648: Gilbert Moir[
* 1649–41: Alexander Douglas][
* 1661–63: Patrick Stewart, town clerk
* 1665 convention: Robert Hamilton
* 1667 convention: Walter Sheroun
* 1669–74: William Cumming (until 1672)
* 1678 convention: Thomas Ogilvy][
* 1681–82: William Fyfe][Foster, p. 145.]
* 1685–86: Walter Steuart[Foster, p. 334.]
* 1689 convention: Walter Steuart, provost[
* 1689–1701: Walter Steuart (until his death in 1701);][
* 1702, 1703–07: Sir Alexander Ogilvy][Foster, p. 276.]
See also
* List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
References
* Joseph Foster,
Members of Parliament, Scotland
', 1882.
Burghs represented in the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707)
Constituencies disestablished in 1707
History of Moray
Politics of the county of Banff
Banff, Aberdeenshire
1707 disestablishments in Scotland
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