Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Haddingtonshire
County constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons

Haddingtonshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918.

Boundaries

The constituency encompassed the county of Haddingtonshire, with the exception, until 1885, of the burgh of Haddington, which formed the separate constituency of Haddington.

Members of Parliament

1708 John Cockburn

1741 Lord Charles Hay

1747 Sir Hew Dalrymple

1761 Andrew Fletcher

1768 Sir George Suttie

1777 William Nisbet

1780 Hew Dalrymple

1786 John Hamilton

1795 Hew Hamilton Dalrymple

1800 Charles Hope

1816 Sir James Suttie

1826 Lord John Hay

1831 James Balfour

1835 Robert Ferguson

1837 James Andrew Ramsay, Baron Ramsay, later Marquess of Dalhousie

1838 Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn

1847 Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas, Baron Elcho, later Earl of Wemyss and March

1883 Hugo Richard Douglas, Baron Elcho, later Earl of Wemyss and March

1885 Richard Burdon Haldane, later Viscount Haldane

1911 John Deans Hope

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