Scottish Constituencies and MPs

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Ayr Burghs, 1 June 1708 - 23 February 1950

Burgh constituency

Date MP Party
26 May 1708 James Campbell
27 October 1710 Charles Oliphant Whig
9 January 1720 Thomas Kennedy Whig
2 September 1721 Duncan Forbes Whig
13 April 1722 William Steuart Whig
18 May 1734 James Stuart Whig
28 May 1741 George Forbes, Earl of Granard Whig
22 July 1747 Charles Erskine Whig
29 December 1749 Sir Henry Erskine Whig
9 May 1754 James Stuart Mackenzie
20 April 1761 Frederick Campbell
28 December 1761 Alexander Wedderburn, later Earl of Rosslyn
11 April 1768 James Archibald Stewart
31 st October 1774 Sir George Macartney, later Earl Macartney
17 January 1776 Frederick Stuart
2 October 1780 Alexander Edmonstone
12 July 1790 Charles Stuart
12 June 1794 John Campbell (born c. 1750)
30 May 1807 John Campbell (born c. 1770)
11 May 1809 Duncan Campbell
11 July 1818 Thomas Francis Kennedy of Dunure Liberal
3 March 1834 Lord Patrick James Herbert Chrichton-Stuart of Rosemount Liberal
22 July 1852 Edward Henry John Crauford, Younger of Auchenames Liberal
9 February 1874 Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame Bt, of Corsehill Conservative
8 April 1880 Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell of Craigie Liberal
15 June 1888 John Sinclair of Grangemouth Liberal
25 March 1890 James Somervell of Sorn Conservative
14 July 1892 William Birkmyre Liberal
19 July 1895 Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing Conservative
30 January 1904 Jospeh Dobbie Liberal
19 January 1906 Sir George Younger, later 1 st Viscount Younger of Leckie Conservative
15 November 1922 Sir John Lawrence Baird, later Viscount Stonehaven Conservative
12 th June 1925 Sir Thomas Cecil Moore Conservative

The Ayr Burghs constituency was composed of Ayr, Campbeltown, Inverary, Irvine and Rothesay. It was abolished in 1950.


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