Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Aberdeenshire was a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1868. It represented the county of Aberdeenshire, minus the burgh of Aberdeen.
In 1868 the constituency was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardinshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into Aberdeenshire East and Aberdeenshire West.
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
Aberdeenshire
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1868 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1708 William Gordon, Lord Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen
1709 Sir Alexander Cumming
1722 Sir Archibald Grant (expelled)
1732 Sir Arthur Forbes
1747 Andrew Mitchell
1754 Lord Adam Gordon
1768 Alexander Garden
1786 George Skene
1790 James Ferguson
1820 William Gordon
1854 George John James Gordon, Baron Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen
1861 William Leslie
1866 William Dingwall Fordyce
Aberdeen and Kincardine East
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1918 Sir William Henry Cowan
1922 Frederick Martin
1924 Sir Robert John Graham Boothby, later Baron Boothby
Aberdeen and Kincardine Central
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1918 Alexander Theodore Gordon
1919 Murdoch McKenzie Wood
1924 Sir Robert Workman Smith
1945 Henry Reginald Spence
Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1918 Arthur Cecil Murray, later Viscount Elibank
1923 Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Conservative
1929 James Scott, Liberal
1931 Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Conservative
1939 Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley, Conservative
Aberdeenshire East
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1950 Sir Robert John Graham Boothby, later Baron Boothby -- Unionist
1958 Patrick Wolrige-Gordon -- Unionist/Conservative
Feb 1974 Douglas Henderson -- SNP
1979 Albert McQuarrie
Aberdeenshire West
| County constituency | |
|---|---|
| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
1950 Henry Reginald Spence -- Unionist
1959 Alexander Forbes Hendry
1966 James Duncan Gordon Davidson
1970 Colin Campbell Mitchell -- Conservative
1974 Sir Thomas Russell Fairgrieve
See also
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