Category: Members of Parliament, Selkirkshire

Categories: Selkirkshire, Scotland | British Members of Parliament by Constituency | Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland | Constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain | Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Selkirkshire was a Scottish county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1868, when it was combined with Peeblesshire to form Peebles and Selkirk. Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Selkirk (also called Ettrick Forest) elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.

Sources:

• History of Parliament Online entry for Selkirkshire 1715-1754
• History of Parliament Online entry for Selkirkshire 1754-1790
• History of Parliament Online entry for Selkirkshire 1790-1820
• History of Parliament Online entry for Selkirkshire 1820-1832
• Wikipedia entry for Selkirkshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
• Wikipedia entry for Selkirkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

This category is managed by the British Isles Politicians Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and British Isles Politicians.

Henry (Douglas-Scott) Douglas-Scott-Montagu 05 Nov 1832 Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland - 04 Nov 1905

Gideon Murray aft 1552 Blackbarony, Scotland - 29 Jun 1621

Mark Pringle 10 Jan 1754 Scotland - 25 Apr 1812

This page was last modified 11:21, 20 August 2020. This page has been accessed 42 times.