Haddington Burghs was a Scottish district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the...
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States Haddington Range Haddington Island (British Columbia) Haddington Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Earl of Haddington East Lothian, formerly referred...
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Anstruther Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of...
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Parliament (MPs) from Scotland to be elected from districts of burghs. All the parliamentary burghs (burghs represented in the pre-Union Parliament of...
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other burghs including Edinburgh, Stirling, Dunfermline, Haddington, Perth, Dumfries, Jedburgh, Montrose, Rutherglen and Lanark. Most of the burghs granted...
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and Midlothian. Linlithgowshire Linlithgow Burghs Edinburghshire Edinburgh Haddingtonshire Haddington Burghs Conservative Independent Liberal Liberal...
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which formed part of the separate constituency of Haddington Burghs. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system...
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East Lothian (redirect from County of Haddington)
Hadintunshire. Three of the county's towns were designated as royal burghs: Haddington, Dunbar, and North Berwick. As with the rest of Lothian, it formed...
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Scotland had more constituencies than seats. With the exception of Edinburgh, the burgh constituencies were districts of burghs. 1708 boundaries were...
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re-election at the Dysart Burghs FitzHarris sought re-election at Horsham List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of Great Britain (pre-1801)...
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the Parliament consisted of the three estates of clergy, nobility, and the burghs. By the 1690s it comprised the nobility, the shires, the burghs, and...
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Robert Ferguson of Raith (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
Raith, was at various times a Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs, and at the time of his death he was Lord Lieutenant...
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1918) † Burghs merged 1930 † Burghs absorbed by Glasgow royal burgh on dates shown 1892 c.55 "Aberdeen Corporation Act 1899", legislation.gov.uk, The National...
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See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Locator_maps_of_former_parliamentary_constituencies_of_England_1917...
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Sir John Hamilton-Dalrymple, 5th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
December 1780 – 26 May 1835) was a Scottish politician and the MP for Haddington Burghs between 1805 and 1806. He was the second son of Sir Hew Dalrymple...
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Haddington is a hamlet in the civil parish of Aubourn with Haddington, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just off...
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p. 4. Retrieved 18 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Haddington Burghs Election". Jedburgh Gazette. 19 August 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 10 December...
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45 single member constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain. These constituencies remained unchanged until 1832. All the burghs were grouped into...
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The 1878 Haddington Burghs by-election was fought on 3 August 1878. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Sir...
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The 1879 Haddington Burghs by-election was fought on 25 February 1879. The by-election was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent...
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James Maitland Balfour (category People from Haddington, East Lothian)
railway mania, which earned him a fortune. He served as Member of Parliament for Haddington from 1841 until 1847 and was also Major Commandant of the East...
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From the 16th century, the shires served as constituencies, electing shire commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland. From 1667 each shire had commissioners...
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The 1869 Wigtown Burghs by-election was held on 4 January 1869. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, George Young, becoming Solicitor...
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administration comprising counties, counties of cities, large burghs and small burghs. With effect from 16 May 1975 and until 31 March 1996 the local...
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of royal burgh. Many different types of burghs existed in Scotland, including royal burghs, burghs of barony and regality, parliamentary burghs and police...
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Henry Erskine (lawyer) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
Square. Erskine sat as Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs from April to November 1806, and for Dumfries Burghs from 1806 to 1807. He was appointed...
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Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow and Peebles Militia on 11 March 1805. Warrender was Member of Parliament (MP) for Haddington Burghs from 1807 to 1812...
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Constituency Members Type Ayr Burghs 1 District Ayrshire 1 County Kilmarnock Burghs 1 District...
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James Balfour (died 1845) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fife constituencies)
the seat. Instead, he turned his attentions to the Anstruther Burghs, a set of five burghs which were located only 15 miles from his newly purchased estate...
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Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies)
1800. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Haddingtonshire 1795–1800, Ayrshire 1803-1807 and 1811–1818 and Haddington Burghs 1820–1826. He died at Bargany...
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