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, the

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s of the shire of Stirling elected

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s to represent them in the unicameral

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and in the

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. From

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was represented by one Member of Parliament in the

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List of shire commissioners

* 1612: Alexander Seton of Kilcreuch * 1644: Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock * 1648: Laird of Polmala (Murray) * 1648: Laird of Garden (Stirling) * 1649: Sir James Hope of Keir * 1649–50: Sir James Hope of Hopton * 1649–50: George Buchanan of that Ilk * 1650: Sir Charles Erskine * 1661–63: John Murray of Touchedame and Polmais * 1661:

James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth (25 June 1616 – 7 September 1661), was a devoted Scottish Royalist who was raised to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Campsie in 1661. Lee, Sidney (1903), Dictionary of National Biog ...

(died 1661) * 1662–63: John Buchanan of that Ilk * 1665 convention: William Murray of Donypace * 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–72: James Seton the elder of Touch * 1667 convention: Charles Erskine of Alvey * 1669–74, 1678 (convention): Sir John Stirling of Keir * 1674, 1678 (convention), 1681–82, 1685–86: James Seton the younger of Touch * 1681–82: Richard Elphinstone of Airth * 1685–86: William Livingstone of Kilsyth * 1689 convention, 1689–90: Sir Charles Erskine of Alva (died 1690) * 1689 convention, 1689–1701: Sir John Houston of that Ilk''Complete Baronetage'', volume IV
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* 1690–1701: Alexander Monro of Bearcrofts * 1690–1700: Alexander Napier of Culcreuch (expelled 1700) * 1700-1701: Sir John Schaw, Bt of Greenock (terminated 1701–2) * 1702: William Livingstone of Kilsyth * 1702–1707: John Grahame of Killearne * 1702–1707: James Grahame of Buchlyvie * 1702–1707: Robert Rollo of Powhouse

List of shire commissioners

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