Elginshire (UK Parliament constituency)

{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1832}}

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Elginshire, in Scotland, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

In 1832, it was combined with Nairnshire and was added to form Elginshire and Nairnshire, which was in turn reconstituted in 1918 as Moray and Nairn, with the incorporation of the burghs of Elgin, Nairn and Forres which had previously been part of Inverness Burghs and Elgin Burghs.

Creation

The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Elgin & Forresshire .

Members of Parliament

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colspan="2" |YearMemberParty
|1708Robert Urquhart
|1710Alexander Grant
|1720James Brodie
|1720Alexander Brodie
|1741Sir Ludovick Grant
|1761James Grant
|1768Francis Grant
|1774Arthur Duff
|1779Lord William Gordon
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|1784

James Duff, Earl of FifePittite
|1790Ludovick Grant, later Earl of Seafield
|1796James Brodie
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|1807

Francis Ogilvy-Grant, later Earl of SeafieldTory
|1832colspan= "2"|Constituency merged with Nairnshire

References

  • {{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/constituencies/elginshire-%28morayshire%29|title= Elginshire (Morayshire)|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 2013-02-27}}

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Category:Politics of Moray

Category:Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)

Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1708

Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832