Kinross-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
Creation Kinross-shire was Scotland's second-smallest county. The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Kinross-shire. Kinross-shire was paired as an alternating constituency with neighbouring Clackmannanshire. The freeholders of Kinross-shire elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to one Parliament, while those of Clackmannanshire elected a Member to the next.
History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished for the 1832 general election.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 abolished the alternating constituencies. Kinross-shire was merged with Clackmannanshire into the single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, electing one Member between them to each Parliament.
Members of Parliament
ElectionMemberNotesRef1708none16 October 1710Mungo GrahamGraham's election was overturned on petition and Malcolm replaced him.D. W. Hayton, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).10 February 1711Sir John Malcolm, 1st Baronet1713none28 February 1715William Douglas Paula Watson, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).1722none9 November 1727John Hope(succeeded as Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet, in 1729) Paula Watson, HOPE, John (c.1684-1766), of Culdraines. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).1734none21 May 1741Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet 1747none25 April 1754Robert Colvile Edith, Lady Haden-Guest, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).1761none5 April 1768Robert Adam 1774none30 September 1780George Graham 1784none6 July 1790George Graham R. G. Thorne, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).1796none2 August 1802William Douglas Maclean ClephaneAppointed Commissioner at Trinidad, April 1803.R. G. Thorne, MACLEAN CLEPHANE, William Douglas (1759-1803), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).23 August 1803David Clephane 1806none16 May 1807William AdamChose to sit for Kincardineshire.17 August 1807David ClephaneAppointed a Commissioner of the Excise for Scotland, March 1811.R. G. Thorne, CLEPHANE, David (b.c.1760), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).25 June 1811Thomas Graham 1812none6 July 1818Thomas GrahamDied 28 July 1819.J. W. Anderson, GRAHAM, Thomas II (1752-1819), of Kinross House, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).16 September 1819George Edward Graham 1820none28 June 1826George Edward Graham Margaret Escott, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).1830none20 May 1831Charles Adam
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