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Scottish Representative Peers

The 1707 Treaty of Union abolished the Parliament of Scotland and created the Parliament of Great Britain. Previously, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit in the Parliament of Scotland. At the time of the Union there were more than 130 Scottish peers and 170 English peers.[1] At that period, the population of Scotland was approximately 1.2 million while the population of England was approximately 5.1 million[2] so to unite all the peers in one house in Parliament would have given the Scots a disproportionate influence. It was therefore decided that Scotland should have 16 "representative peers" in each parliament. These peers were selected by "open election" rather than by secret ballot. Following the dissolution of each parliament a new ballot was to be held.[3]

Under the Peerage Act 1963 which came into effect in August that year, all Scottish peers were given seats in the House of Lords as of right, thus after that date no further Scottish representative peers were needed.[4]

These representative peers, ordered by title, were:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

  • George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly

I

  • Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount Irvine (1768-1778)

K

  • William Livingston, 3rd Viscount of Kilsyth (1710-1715)

L

M

  • Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont (1727-1734)
  • Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont (1750-1784)

N

O

P

  • James Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth (1941-1951)
  • John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth (1952-1963)

Q

R

  • John Rollo, 8th Lord Rollo (1841-1846)
  • William Rollo, 9th Lord Rollo (1847-1852)
  • John Rollo, 10th Lord Rollo (1860-1868)

S

  • James Somerville, 13th Lord Somerville (1741-1747)
  • James Somerville, 14th Lord Somerville (1793-1796)
  • John Somerville, 15th Lord Somerville (1796-1807)

T

W

Sources

  1. ↑ Oxford Reference - representative peers; accessed 3 March 2024
  2. ↑ Wikipedia List of countries by population in 1700; accessed 3 March 2024
  3. ↑ England, Scotland and the Treaty of Union, 1706-08; History of Parliament Trust; accessed 3 March 2024.
  4. ↑ Wikipedia List of Scottish representative peers; accessed 3 March 2024




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