Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stirlingshire
County constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons

Stirlingshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain and later of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918, when it was divided into Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire and Stirling and Clackmannan Western.

[edit] Member of Parliament

  • 1708 Henry Cunningham
  • 1710 Sir Hugh Paterson
  • 1715 Mungo Haldane
  • 1722 John Graham
  • 1727 Henry Cunningham
  • 1734 Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet
  • 1741 Lord George Graham
  • 1747 Thomas Erskine
  • 1747 James Campbell, later Livingstone
  • 1768 Sir Thomas Dundas, later Baron Dundas
  • 1794 Robert Graham
  • 1796 Sir George Keith Elphinstone
  • 1802 Charles Elphinstone Fleeming
  • 1812 Sir Charles Edmonstone
  • 1821 Henry Home-Drummond
  • 1831 William Ramsay Ramsay
  • 1832 Charles Elphinstone Fleeming
  • 1835 William Forbes
  • 1838 George Ralph Abercromby, later Baron Abercromby
  • 1841 William Forbes
  • 1855 Peter Blackburn
  • 1865 John Elphinstone Erskine
  • 1874 Sir William Edmonstone
  • 1880 Joseph Cheney Bolton Liberal
  • 1892 William Jacks Liberal
  • 1895 James McKillop Conservative
  • 1906 Donald Mackenzie Smeaton Liberal
  • 1910 William Allan Chapple Liberal

[edit] Politics and history of the constituency