Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbright ( ; sco, Kirkcoubrie; gd, Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a Royal Burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The town lies southwest of ...

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

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. After the Acts of Union 1707, the commissioner for Kirkcudbright was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain. From

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Kirkcudbright, Annan, Dumfries,

Lochmaben Lochmaben ( Gaelic: ''Loch Mhabain'') is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle. It lies west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway. By the 12th century the Bruce family had become the local landowners and, in the 14th ...

and

Sanquhar Sanquhar ( sco, Sanchar, gd, Seanchair) is a village on the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, north of Thornhill and west of Moffat. It is a former Royal Burgh. It is notable for its tiny post office, established in 1712 and con ...

formed the Dumfries

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.

List of burgh commissioners

* 1661: John Ewart, provost * 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: John Glendening, provost * 1678 convention: William Ewart, provost * 1681–82: Samuel Cairmunt * 1685–86: Hendry Muir, bailie (died c.1685) * 1686: John Callender, merchant-burgess * 1689 convention, 1689–95: John Ewart, former provost (excused on grounds of age and infirmity, died c.1698) * 1700–1702, 1702–07: Andrew HumeDavid Wilkinson
HUME, Hon. Sir Andrew (1676-1730), of Kimmerghame, Berwick.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1690-1715'' (2002).

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Burghs represented in the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) Constituencies disestablished in 1707 1707 disestablishments in Scotland Politics of Dumfries and Galloway History of Dumfries and Galloway Kirkcudbright {{UK-hist-constituency-stub

List of burgh commissioners

See also

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