Buteshire and Caithness (UK Parliament constituencies)
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Buteshire and Caithness were constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
From 1708 to 1832 they were paired as alternating constituencies: one of the constituencies elected a Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament, the other to the next. The areas which were covered by the two constituencies are quite remote from each other, Caithness in the northeast of Scotland and Buteshire in the southwest.
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[edit] Buteshire
| Buteshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
The Buteshire constituency represented the traditional county of Buteshire. In 1918 the constituency was combined with part of Ayrshire North to form Bute and Northern Ayrshire, which in turn was divided between Argyll and Bute and Cunninghame North in 1983.
[edit] Caithness
| Caithness County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
The Caithness constituency represented essentially the traditional county of Caithness. The county town of Wick, however, was represented as a component of the Northern Burghs constituency. Caithness had also Sutherland as a neighbouring constituency, to the south and west, and Orkney and Shetland to the north, across the Pentland Firth. In 1918 the Caithness and Sutherland constituencies and the Wick and Dornoch components of Northern Burghs were merged to form the constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. In 1997 Caithness and Sutherland was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.
[edit] Buteshire and Caithness MPs 1708 to 1832
1708 Dugald Stewart
1710 John Montgomerie
1710 James Dunbar
1713 John Campbell (Buteshire MP), later Duke of Argyll
1715 Sir Robert Gordon
1722 Patrick Campbell
1727 Sir Patrick Dunbar, 3rd Baronet (see Dunbar Baronets)
1734 Patrick Campbell
1741 Alexander Brodie
1747 John Stuart-Mackenzie
1754 John Scott (Caithness MP)
1761 James Stuart
1762 Henry Wauchope
1768 Kenneth Mackenzie, Viscount Fortrose, later Earl of Seaforth
1774 James Stuart
1780 John Sinclair
1784 James Stuart
1790 Sir John Sinclair
1796 Frederick Stuart
1802 Sir John Sinclair
1806 James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
1807 Sir John Sinclair
1811 George Sinclair
1812 John Marjoribanks
1818 George Sinclair
1820 Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart
1826 James Sinclair
1830 Sir William Rae (Buteshire MP)
1831 George Sinclair
[edit] Buteshire MPs 1832 to 1918
1832 Charles Stuart
1833 Sir William Rae
1842 James Archibald Stuart-Wortley
1859 David Mure
1865 George Frederick Boyle, later 6th Earl of Glasgow
1865 James Lamont
1868 Charles Dalrymple
1880 Thomas Russell
1880 Charles Dalrymple
1885 James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, later Baron Robertson
1891 Andrew Graham Murray, later Viscount Dunedin
1905 Norman Lamont
1910 Harry Hope
[edit] Caithness MPs 1832 to 1918
1832 George Sinclair
1841 George Traill
1869 Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair
1885 Gavin Brown Clark (Crofters' Party)
1900 Robert Leicester Harmsworth
