Lauder (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Lauder in Berwickshire 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, Lauder, North Berwick, Dunbar, Haddington and Jedburgh formed the Haddington district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1661: Thomas Wood, bailie 1665 convention: Robert Wood, bailie 1667 convention, 1669: John Maitland, bailie 1670–74: Thomas Wood, bailie 1678 convention, 1685–86: Alexander Home 1681–82: Charles Lauder of Park, merchant 1689 convention, 1689–1702: David Maitland of Soutra 1702–07: Sir David Cunynghame of MilncraigG. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. IV (1904) p. 401.

References

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