Buteshire and Caithness (UK Parliament constituencies)
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| Caithness County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Buteshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Buteshire and Caithness were county 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.
From 1832 to 1918, they were separate constituencies, each represented by its own MP.
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[edit] Boundaries
From 1708 to 1832, the Buteshire constituency covered the county of Bute minus the parliamentary burgh of Rothesay, which was a component of the Ayr Burghs constituency, and the Caithness constituency covered the county of Caithness minus the parliamentary burgh of Wick, which was a component of the Tain Burghs constituency.
When Buteshire and Caithness became separate constituencies, in 1832, Rothesay was merged into the Buteshire constituency. Wick retained its status as a parliamentary burgh and became a component of the Wick Burghs constituency.
By 1892, Bute and Caithness had become a local government counties and, throughout Scotland, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, county boundaries had been redefined for all purposes except parliamentary representation. 26 years were to elapse before constituency boundaries were redrawn, by the Representation of the People Act 1918, to take account of new local government boundaries.
In 1918, the Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Caithness and Sutherland county constituencies were created.
The Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency was created to cover the county of Bute and a northern portion of the county of Ayr. The rest of the county of Ayr was divided between three other constituencies, all entirely within the county: the county constituencies of South Ayrshire and Kilmarnock, and a remodelled Ayr Burghs.
The Caithness and Sutherland constituency was created to cover the county of Caithness and the county of Sutherland. The Wick Burghs constituency was abolished and two of its former components, Wick and Dornoch, were merged into the new Caithness and Sutherland constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[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
1754 John Scott (Caithness MP)
1761 James Stuart
1762 Henry Wauchope
1768 Viscount Fortrose
1774 James Stuart
1780 John Sinclair (Caithness)
1784 James Stuart
1790 Sir John Sinclair (Caithness)
1796 Frederick Stuart
1802 Sir John Sinclair (Caithness)
1806 James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
1807 Sir John Sinclair (Caithness)
1811 George Sinclair
1812 John Marjoribanks
1818 George Sinclair
1820 Lord Patrick 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 Boyle
1865 James Lamont
1868 Charles Dalrymple
1880 Thomas Russell
1880 Charles Dalrymple
1885 James Robertson
1891 Andrew Murray
1905 Norman Lamont
1910 Sir Harry Hope
[edit] Election results
| General Election 1906: Buteshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Norman Lamont | 1,637 | 51.9 | ||
| Conservative | G. Speir | 1,517 | 48.1 | ||
After James Robertson accepted office as Solicitor General for Scotland in July 1886, he was returned unopposed at a by-election on 12 August.
| General Election 1886: Buteshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | James Robertson | 1,364 | |||
| Liberal | Rev Nigel MacNeill | 819 | |||
| General Election 1885: Buteshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | James Robertson | 1,374 | |||
| Liberal | Robert A Maclean | 1090 | |||
[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
[edit] Election results
| General Election 1906: Caithness-shire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Robert Leicester Harmsworth | 2,686 | |||
| Conservative | Sir K.A. Fraser Bt | 483 | |||
| General Election 1886: Caithness-shire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Gavin Brown Clark MD | 2,034 | |||
| Liberal Unionist | Robert Niven | 584 | |||
| General Election 1885: Caithness-shire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Gavin Brown Clark MD | 2,110 | |||
| Liberal | Clarence Granville Sinclair | 1,218 | |||
