Kintore in

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area inclu ...

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

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to the

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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 ...

. The Parliament of Scotland ceased to exist with the

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, and the commissioner for Kintore, Sir George Allardice, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first

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. From the 1708 general election 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 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

* 1579: Mr Thomas Mollison * 1617: Walter Cheyne * 1621: John Leslie * 1661–63: Mr James Keith * 1667 (convention), 1669–74: Mr William Moir * 1678 (convention): Adam Pittendreich * 1681, 1685–86: John Udny of Newtyle and Cultercullen * 1689 (convention), 1690: Hugh Wallace of Ingliston (declared ineligible 1693) * 1693–1702: Sir James Scougall of Whitehill * 1703–07: Sir George AllardiceDavid Wilkinson
ALLARDICE (ALLERDYCE), Sir George (1672-1709), of Allardice, Kincardine.
in ''

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

References

* Margaret D. Young, ''The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners'', volume 2, 1993. Appendix 2, page 780. Burghs represented in the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) Constituencies disestablished in 1707 History of Aberdeenshire Politics of the county of Aberdeen 1707 disestablishments in Scotland {{UK-hist-constituency-stub

List of burgh commissioners

See also

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