Clackmannanshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
The constituency Clackmannanshire was Scotland's smallest county. The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Clackmannanshire. Clackmannanshire was paired as an alternating constituency with neighbouring Kinross-shire. The freeholders of Clackmannanshire elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to one Parliament, while those of Kinross-shire elected a Member to the next.
Abolition The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 abolished the alternating constituencies. Clackmannanshire was merged with Kinross-shire into the single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, electing one Member between them to each Parliament.
Members of Parliament
ElectionMemberNotesRef16 June 1708William Dalrymple D. W. Hayton, Clackmannanshire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).1710none18 September 1713Sir John Erskine, 3rd Baronet 1715none19 April 1722Sir John Shaw, 3rd Baronet J. M. Simpson, Clackmannanshire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).1727none10 May 1734James Erskine 1741none25 July 1747Thomas Erskine 1754none10 April 1761James Abercromby Edith, Lady Haden-Guest, Clackmannanshire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).1768none3 November 1774Ralph Abercromby 1780none10 April 1784Charles Allan CathcartDied 10 June 1788.Edith, Lady Haden-Guest, CATHCART, Hon. Charles Allan (1759-88), of Sauchie, Clackmannan. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).29 November 1788Burnet Abercromby 1790none21 June 1796Sir Ralph AbercrombyAppointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, 8 February 1798.R. G. Thorne, Clackmannanshire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).26 February 1798Sir Robert Abercromby 1802none18 November 1806George Abercromby 1807none22 October 1812George AbercrombyAppointed Escheator of Munster, July 1815.7 August 1815Sir John AbercrombyDied 14 February 1817.R. G. Thorne, ABERCROMBY, Sir John (1772-1817), of Tullibody, Clackmannan. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).11 April 1817Alexander Abercromby 1818none27 March 1820Robert BruceAppointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, 13 July 1824.David R. Fisher, Clackmannanshire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).13 July 1824George Ralph Abercromby 1826none10 August 1830George Ralph Abercromby 1831none
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