Cullen in Banffshire was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
The Parliament of Scotland ceased to exist with the Act of Union 1707, and the commissioner for Cullen, Patrick Ogilvy, was one of those co-opted to represent Scotland in the first Parliament of Great Britain. From the 1708 general election Banff, Cullen, Elgin, Inverurie and Kintore comprised the Elgin district of burghs, electing one Member of Parliament between them.
List of burgh commissioners
1661: George Dunbar 1663: George Leslie 1665 convention, 1667 convention: not represented 1669–72: __ Baird 1678 convention, 1685–86: George Leslie, bailie 1681–82, 1689 convention, 1689–1695: Sir James Ogilvie of that Ilk (took public office 1696) 1696–1702: Sir John Hamilton of Hallcraig 1702-1707: Patrick OgilvyDavid Wilkinson, OGILVY, Hon. Patrick (1665-1737), of Cairnbulg and Loanmay, Aberdeen and Inchmartine, Perth. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, 2002. Online version accessed 28 July 2013.
See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
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