Auchterarder (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Auchterarder was a constituency of the Parliament of Scotland.

History

Auchterarder had been made a royal burgh in 1246, but the only known burgh commissioner was John Graham of Callander,^[1] who attended Parliament on 22 August 1584.^[2]

↑ Margaret D. Young, The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners, volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1993) p. 769.
↑ Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1584/5/70.

Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union 1707

Burghs	Aberdeen Annan Anstruther Easter Anstruther Wester Arbroath Auchterarder Ayr Banff Berwick Brechin Burntisland Campbeltown Crail Cromarty Cullen Culross Cupar Dingwall Dornoch Dumbarton Dumfries Dunbar Dundee Dunfermline Dysart Edinburgh Elgin Forfar Forres Fortrose Glasgow Haddington Inveraray Inverbervie Inverkeithing Inverness Inverurie Irvine Jedburgh Kilrenny Kinghorn Kintore Kirkcaldy Kirkcudbright Kirkwall Lanark Lauder Linlithgow Lochmaben Montrose Nairn New Galloway North Berwick Peebles Perth Pittenweem Queensferry Renfrew Rothesay Rutherglen St Andrews Sanquhar Selkirk Stirling Stranraer Tain Whithorn Wick Wigtown

Shires	Aberdeen Argyll Ayr Banff Berwick Bute Caithness Clackmannan Cromarty Dumfries Dunbarton Edinburgh Elgin and Forres Fife Forfar Haddington Inverness Kincardine Kinross Kirkcudbright Lanark Linlithgow Nairn Orkney and Shetland Peebles Perth Renfrew Ross Roxburgh Selkirk Stirling Sutherland Tarbert Wigtown

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