Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency) (1708-1918)
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| Midlothian County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Midlothian (or the anglified Edinburghshire) was a constituency 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.
It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The constituency consisted of the former county of Midlothian. It was divided into the new constituencies Midlothian and Peebles North and Peebles and Southern in 1918.
The seat is most famous as the location of William Gladstone's upset victory in the Midlothian Campaign of 1880.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1708 George Lockhart
- 1715 John Baird
- 1722 Robert Dundas
- 1737 Sir Charles Gilmour
- 1751 Robert Balfour-Ramsay
- 1754 Robert Dundas
- 1761 Sir Alexander Gilmour
- 1774 Henry Dundas, later Viscount Melville
- 1790 Robert Dundas
- 1801 Robert Saunders-Dundas, later Viscount Melville
- 1811 Sir George Clerk, Bt
- 1832 Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, later Earl of Stair
- 1835 Sir George Clerk, Bt
- 1837 William Gibson Craig
- 1841 William Ramsay Ramsay
- 1845 Sir John Hope
- 1853 William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, later Duke of Buccleuch
- 1868 Sir Alexander Charles Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland
- 1874 William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, later Duke of Buccleuch
- 1880 William Ewart Gladstone
- 1895 Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, later Baron Carmichael
- 1900 Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Master of Elibank, later Baron Murray of Elibank
- 1906 Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose,Baron Dalmeny, later Earl of Rosebery
- 1910 Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Master of Elibank, later Baron Murray of Elibank
- 1912 John Augustus Hope
[edit] Election results
| General Election 1906: Edinburghshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Lord Dalmeny | 8,348 | |||
| Conservative | F.J. Usher | 5,131 | |||
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