Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Aberdeenshire was a Scottish constituency 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 until 1868. It represented the county of Aberdeenshire, minus the burgh of Aberdeen.
In 1868, the constituency was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardinshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into Aberdeenshire East and Aberdeenshire West.
| Aberdeenshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1868 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
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1708 William Gordon, Lord Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen
1722 Sir Archibald Grant (expelled)
1732 Sir Arthur Forbes
1747 Andrew Mitchell
1768 Alexander Garden
1786 George Skene
1790 James Ferguson
1820 William Gordon
1854 George John James Gordon, Baron Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen
1861 William Leslie
1866 William Dingwall Fordyce
