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Kintore (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
Kintore
in
Aberdeenshire
was a
royal burgh
that returned one
commissioner
to the
Parliament of Scotland
and to the
Convention of Estates
.
The
Parliament
of Scotland ceased to
exist
with the
Act of Union 1707
, and the commissioner for Kintore,
Sir George Allardice
, was one of
those co-opted to represent Scotland
in the first
Parliament of Great Britain
. From the
1708 general election
Banff
,
Cullen
,
Elgin
,
Inverurie
and Kintore comprised the Elgin
district of burghs
, electing one
Member of Parliament
between them.
List of
burgh commissioners
1579:
Mr Thomas
Mollison
1617:
Walter
Cheyne
1621:
John Leslie
1661–63:
Mr James
Keith
1667
, 1669–74:
Mr
William Moir
1678 : Adam Pittendreich
1681
, 1685–86:
John
Udny of
Newtyle
and Cultercullen
1689, 1690:
Hugh Wallace
of Ingliston
1693–1702: Sir James Scougall of Whitehill
1703–07: Sir George
Allardice
of that ilk