Stirling (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Stirling in Stirlingshire was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

The Parliament of Scotland ceased to exist with the Act of Union 1707, and the commissioner for Stirling, John Erskine, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first Parliament of Great Britain. From the 1708 general election Culross, Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, Stirling and Queensferry comprised the Stirling district of burghs, electing one Member of Parliament between them.

List of burgh commissioners

1474: James Shaw of SauchieJoseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882) p. 313. 1572 convention: James Shaw 1612: John Sherar 1612, 1617 convention, 1617: John Williamson, town clerk 1621: Duncan Paterson 1625 convention: John Cowan 1628–33, 1630 convention, 1639–41, 1643–44, 1644–46, 1648: Thomas Bruce, provost 1646–47, 1648–51: John Shorte, sometime provost 1651: John Cowan 1661–63, 1665 convention: Duncan Nairn, provost 1667 convention: James Steinston 1669–74: James Stevenson, provost 1678 convention, 1681–82: Robert Russell, provost 1685–86: John McCulloch, provost 1689 convention, 1689–90: Hugh Kennedy of Schelloch (died c.1690) 1693–95: John Dick (expelled 1695 for menaces) 1696–97: Patrick Thompson, treasurer of Edinburgh (died 1698) 1697–1702: Francis Napier of Craigannet, provost 1702–07: John ErskineD. W. Hayton, ERSKINE, John (1660-1733), of the Sand Haven, Culross, Fife. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, 2002. Online version accessed 28 July 2013.

See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union

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