Burntisland in Fife was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Burntisland, Dysart, Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy formed the Dysart district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of burgh commissioners
1661: George Gairdin (or Gairnes) (died c.1662) 1663: Gilbert Haliburton 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669: David Seaton, merchant-burgess (died 1669) 1670–72: William Gedd (died 1672) 1673–74: James Dewar, merchant-trafficker 1678 convention, 1681–82: James Dewar, bailie 1685–86: Michael Seton, baillie 1689 convention, 1689–1701: Alexander Gedd, bailie 1702–07: Sir John Erskine of AlvaG. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. iv (1904) p. 251.
See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
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