This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament of Scotland, where, as a unicameral legislature, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit.
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From 1707 to 1963 there were sixteen Scottish representative peers, all elected from among the peerage of Scotland to sit for one parliament. After each dissolution of parliament, a new election of representative peers from Scotland took place, although the Irish representative peers held their seats in parliament for life.
Under the Peerage Act 1963 which came into effect in August that year, all Scottish peers were given seats in the House of Lords as of right, thus after that date no further Scottish representative peers were needed.
List of Scottish representative peers
edit1707–1749
edit1750–1799
edit1800–1849
edit1850–1899
edit1900–1963
editRepresentative peers with a qualifying title
editSince the Act of Union 1707
edit| No |  Representative peer
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Elected | Ceased |  Title
|
Created | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Douglas 2nd Duke of Queensberry |
13 February 1707 | 15 April 1708 | Duke of Dover | [1] | 26 May 1708 | |
| 2 | James Hamilton 4th Duke of Hamilton |
17 June 1708 | 15 November 1712 | Duke of Brandon | 10 September 1711 | ||
| 3 | Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon |
1 October 1767 | 25 March 1784 | Earl of Norwich | [2] | 2 July 1784 | |
| 4 | John Murray 4th Duke of Atholl |
17 October 1780 | 25 March 1784 | Earl Strange | [3] | 18 August 1786 | |
| 5 | James Hamilton 8th Earl of Abercorn |
5 May 1761 | 14 February 1787 | Viscount Hamilton | 24 August 1786 | ||
| 6 | George Douglas 16th Earl of Morton |
8 May 1784 | 11 June 1790 | Baron Douglas of Lochleven | [4] | 11 August 1791 | |
| 7 | Francis Stuart 9th Earl of Moray |
8 May 1784 | 20 May 1796 | Baron Stuart of Castle Stuart | 4 June 1796 | ||
| 8 | John Stewart 7th Earl of Galloway |
15 November 1774 | 11 June 1790 | Baron Stewart of Garlies | 6 June 1796 | ||
Since the Act of Union 1801
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Extinct on 22 October 1778
- ^ Both titles Extinct on 28 May 1836 (Gordon family)
- ^ Extinct on 8 May 1957
- ^ Extinct on 17 July 1827
- ^ Extinct on 22 March 1863
- ^ Dormant since 1995
- ^ Extinct on 8 November 1862
- ^ Extinct on 8 November 1862
- ^ Now the Marquess of Linlithgow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
- ^ Now the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
- ^ Extinct on 3 July 1820
- ^ Extinct on 22 December 1860
- ^ Extinct on 23 April 1890
- ^ Now the Baron Kilmarnock is a separate title from 24 January 1941.
- ^ Extinct on 22 December 1868
- ^ Extinct on 12 March 1884
- ^ Extinct on 3 December 1837
- ^ Extinct on 31 March 1884
- ^ Now the Baron Strathspey is a separate title.
- ^ Extinct on 19 July 1860
- ^ Extinct on 25 May 1889
- "Representative Peers – Scotland". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.
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