Ayr (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Ayr 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, Ayr, Campbeltown, Inveraray, Irvine and Rothesay formed the Ayr district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1567, 1575, 1578, 1579: John Lockhart of BarrJoseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882) p. 218. 1604, 1605, 1607, 1609, 1612: John Lockhart of Barr 1644: John Osbourn 1645–47, 1648, 1649: John Kennedy 1649, 1650–51: Hew Kennedy 1661–63, 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: William Cunningham, provost 1678 convention: Robert Doock, provost 1681–82: James Boyll, provost 1685–86: Robert Hunter, provost 1689 (convention), 1689–1702, 1703–07: John Moore, provost

References

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