Cullen in Banffshire was a

royal burgh A royal burgh () was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs. Most royal burghs were either created by ...

that returned one commissioner to the

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and to the Convention of Estates. The Parliament of Scotland ceased to exist with the Act of Union 1707, and the commissioner for Cullen, Patrick Ogilvy, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first Parliament of Great Britain. From the 1708 general election Banff, Cullen, Elgin,

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and Kintore comprised 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) ...

, electing one Member of Parliament between them.

List of burgh commissioners

* 1661: George Dunbar * 1663: George Leslie *''1665 convention, 1667 convention: not represented'' * 1669–72: __ Baird * 1678 convention, 1685–86: George Leslie, bailie * 1681–82, 1689 convention, 1689–1695: Sir James Ogilvie of that Ilk (took public office 1696) * 1696–1702: Sir John Hamilton of Hallcraig * 1702-1707: Patrick OgilvyDavid Wilkinson
OGILVY, Hon. Patrick (1665-1737), of Cairnbulg and Loanmay, Aberdeen and Inchmartine, Perth.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1690-1715'', 2002. Online version accessed 28 July 2013.

References

Burghs represented in the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) Constituencies disestablished in 1707 History of Moray Politics of the county of Banff 1707 disestablishments in Scotland {{UK-hist-constituency-stub

List of burgh commissioners

See also

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