Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)

Kinross-shire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Kinross-shire
1708–1832
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire
Created from	Kinross-shire

Kinross-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

The constituency

Kinross-shire was Scotland's second-smallest county, and was paired as an alternating constituency with neighbouring Clackmannanshire. The freeholders of Kinross-shire elected one Member of Parliament to one Parliament, while those of Clackmannanshire elected a Member to the next.

Abolition

The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 abolished the alternating constituencies. Kinross-shire was merged with Clackmannanshire into the single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, electing one Member between them to each Parliament.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Notes	Ref
1708	none
16 October 1710	Mungo Graham	Graham's election was overturned on petition and Malcolm replaced him.	[1]
10 February 1711	Sir John Malcolm, 1st Baronet		[1]
1713	none
28 February 1715	William Douglas		[2]
1722	none
9 November 1727	John Hope (succeeded as Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet, in 1729)		[2][3]
1734	none
21 May 1741	Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet		[2]
1747	none
25 April 1754	Robert Colvile		[4]
1761	none
5 April 1768	Robert Adam		[4]
1774	none
30 September 1780	George Graham		[4]
1784	none
6 July 1790	George Graham		[5]
1796	none
2 August 1802	William Douglas Maclean Clephane	Appointed Commissioner at Trinidad, April 1803.	[5][6]
23 August 1803	David Clephane		[5]
1806	none
16 May 1807	William Adam	Chose to sit for Kincardineshire.	[5]
17 August 1807	David Clephane	Appointed a Commissioner of the Excise for Scotland, March 1811.	[5][7]
25 June 1811	Thomas Graham		[5]
1812	none
6 July 1818	Thomas Graham	Died 28 July 1819.	[5][8]
16 September 1819	George Edward Graham		[5]
1820	none
28 June 1826	George Edward Graham		[9]
1830	none
20 May 1831	Charles Adam		[9]

References

1. D. W. Hayton, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).
2. Paula Watson, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).
3. Paula Watson, HOPE, John (c.1684-1766), of Culdraines. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).
4. Edith, Lady Haden-Guest, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).
5. R. G. Thorne, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
6. R. G. Thorne, MACLEAN CLEPHANE, William Douglas (1759-1803), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
7. R. G. Thorne, CLEPHANE, David (b.c.1760), of Kirkness, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
8. J. W. Anderson, GRAHAM, Thomas II (1752-1819), of Kinross House, Kinross. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
9. Margaret Escott, Kinross-shire in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).