Kirkcudbright was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, the commissioner for Kirkcudbright was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain. From 1708 Kirkcudbright, Annan, Dumfries, Lochmaben and Sanquhar formed the Dumfries district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of burgh commissioners
1661: John Ewart, provost 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: John Glendening, provost 1678 convention: William Ewart, provost 1681–82: Samuel Cairmunt 1685–86: Hendry Muir, bailie (died c.1685) 1686: John Callender, merchant-burgess 1689 convention, 1689–95: John Ewart, former provost (excused on grounds of age and infirmity, died c.1698) 1700–1702, 1702–07: Andrew HumeDavid Wilkinson, HUME, Hon. Sir Andrew (1676-1730), of Kimmerghame, Berwick. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).
See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
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