Irvine Irvine may refer to: Places On Earth Antarctica *Irvine Glacier *Mount Irvine (Antarctica) Australia *Irvine Island *Mount Irvine, New South Wales Canada *Irvine, Alberta * Irvine Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom *Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotla ...

Ayrshire 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 Re ...

was a royal burgh that returned 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 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 te ...

, Irvine, Ayr,

Campbeltown Campbeltown (; gd, Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or ) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown became an important centre for Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing ...

, Inveraray and Rothesay formed the Ayr district of burghs, returning one member between them to the

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List of burgh commissioners

* 1579–87: Hugh Campbell * 1648: Robert Brown * 1649–51: Robert Barclay * 1661: Alan Dunlop the younger of Craig, provost * 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669: Robert Cunningham, provost (died c.1670) * 1673–74: Arthur Hamilton, town clerk * 1678 convention: John Montgomerie the younger of Bench, merchant-burgess * 1685–86: George Leslie, baillie * 1689 convention, 1689–1702: Alexander Cuninghame of Chirrislands * 1702–05: Alexander Cunynghame of Collellan (died c.1705) * 1705–07: George Monro, baillie

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List of burgh commissioners

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