Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Linlithgow elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral

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and in the

Convention of the 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 Conve ...

. From

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Linlithgowshire West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its shires of Scotland, historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geogra ...

was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of shire commissioners

* 1628–29: Thomas Dalyell of Binns * 1629: Robert Hamilton of Bathgate * 1628-33: Sir Walter Dundas of that Ilk * 1628–1633, 1630 (convention), 1639: William Drummond of Riccarton * 1639–41, 1643–44, 1650: George Dundas of that Ilk * 1640–41: Sir John Stirling of Garden * 1643–44: Cochran of Barbachla * 1644, 1644–47: Samuel Drummond of Carlowrie * 1644, 1644–47, 1648: Laird of Maner (George Dundas) * 1645–46: Laird of Boighall (Hamilton) * 1646–47, 1648: Laird of Binning (Hamilton) * 1649: William Sandilands of Hilderston * 1649–50: George Dundas of Duddingston * 1661–63, 1667 (convention): Sir Archibald Stirling of Garden, Lord Garden, Senator of College of Justice * 1661, 1685–86, 1689 (convention), 1689–98: Thomas Drummond of Riccarton (died c.1699) * 1665 (convention), 1667 (convention), 1669–74: Sir Walter Seton of

Abercorn Abercorn (Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a pop ...

* 1669-74: James Dundas of Morton * 1678 (convention), 1681–82, 1685–85

Tam Dalyell of the Binns Sir Thomas Dalyell of The Binns, 1st Baronet (1615–1685) was a Scottish Royalist general in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, also known by the soubriquets "Bluidy Tam" and "The Muscovite De'il". Life Dalyell was born in Linlithgowshire, th ...

(died 1685) * 1678 (convention): William Sharp of Houston * 1681–82: John Hope of Hopeton * 1686, 1689 (convention), 1689–1701, 1702–03: Patrick Murray of Livingston (died c.1703) * 1700–02, 1703–07: Thomas Sharp of Houston * 1702–03: Charles Hope of Hopeton (died c.1703) * 1704–07:

John Montgomerie Colonel John Montgomerie (died 1731) was colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1728 to 1731. Life Montgomerie was born in the parish of Beith in Scotland. His father, Francis Montgomerie, was a member of the Privy Council under W ...

of Wrae

List of shire commissioners

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