Glasgow (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Glasgow in Lanarkshire 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, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Renfrew and Rutherglen formed the Glasgow district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1630 (convention): Gabriel Cunningham, provost 1639–1641: Patrick Bell, provost 1643–44, 1644: James Bell 1645: Colin Campbell of ElieG. Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Campbells, vol. II (1921) p. 29. 1645–1647, 1649–51: George Porterfield 1661–1663: John Bell, provost 1665 (convention), 1667 (convention), 1669–1674: William Anderson, provost 1678 (convention): James Campbell, provost 1681–1682: John Bell, provost 1685–86: John Johnston of Clauchrie, provost 1689 (convention), 1689–1702: John Anderson of Dowhill, merchant-burgess 1702–1707: Hugh Montgomerie of Busbie, provost

References

See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union