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Constituency of the Old Parliament of Scotland in Fife, Scotland, UK
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)
[1]
- 1663: Gilbert Haliburton
[1]
- 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669: David Seaton, merchant-burgess (died 1669)
[2]
- 1670–72: William Gedd
[2] (died 1672)
[2]
- 1673–74: James Dewar, merchant-trafficker
[2]
- 1678 convention, 1681–82: James Dewar, bailie
[3]
- 1685–86: Michael Seton, baillie
[4]
- 1689 convention, 1689–1701: Alexander Gedd, bailie
[5]
- 1702–07:
Sir John Erskine of
Alva
[6]
See also
References
- ^
a
b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 573.
- ^
a
b
c
d Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 575.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 582.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 587.
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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 593.
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^
G. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. iv (1904)
p. 251.