List of Scottish representative peers
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This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament of Scotland, where, as a unicameral legislature, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit.
From 1707 to 1963 there were sixteen Scottish representative peers, all elected from among the peerage of Scotland to sit for one parliament. After each dissolution of parliament, a new election of representative peers from Scotland took place, although the Irish representative peers held their seats in parliament for life.
Under the Peerage Act 1963 which came into effect in August that year, all Scottish peers were given seats in the House of Lords as of right, thus after that date no further Scottish representative peers were needed.
List of Scottish representative peers
1707–1749
1750–1799
1800–1849
1850–1899
1900–1963
Representative peers with a qualifying title
Since the Act of Union 1707
| No |  Representative peer
|
Elected | Ceased |  Title
|
Created | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry | 13 February 1707 | 15 April 1708 | Duke of Dover | 26 May 1708 | GB Title Extinct in 1778 |
| 2 | James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton | 17 June 1708 | 15 November 1712 | Duke of Brandon | 10 September 1711 | Both Titles are Extant |
| 3 | Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon | 1 October 1767 | 25 March 1784 | Earl of Norwich | 2 July 1784 | Both Titles are Extinct (Gordon family) |
| 4 | John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl | 17 October 1780 | 25 March 1784 | Earl Strange | 18 August 1786 | GB Title Extinct in 1957 |
| 5 | James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn | 5 May 1761 | 14 February 1787 | Viscount Hamilton | 24 August 1786 | Both Titles are Extant |
| 6 | George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton | 8 May 1784 | 11 June 1790 | Baron Douglas of Lochleven | 11 August 1791 | GB Title Extinct in 1827 |
| 7 | Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray | 8 May 1784 | 20 May 1796 | Baron Stuart of Castle Stuart | 4 June 1796 | Both Titles are Extant |
| 8 | John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway | 15 November 1774 | 11 June 1790 | Baron Stewart of Garlies | 6 June 1796 | Both Titles are Extant |
Since the Act of Union 1801
| No | Representative peer
|
Elected | Ceased |  Title
|
Created | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hugh Montgomerie 12th Earl of Eglinton |
15 August 1798 | 24 October 1806 | Baron Ardrossan | 21 February 1806 | |
| 2 | James Maitland 8th Earl of Lauderdale |
24 July 1790 | 20 May 1796 | Baron Lauderdale of Thirlestane [1] | 22 February 1806 | |
| 3 | John Campbell 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland |
8 May 1784 | 24 October 1806 | Baron Breadalbane [2] | 13 November 1806 | Scottish Title is Dormant, UK Title Extinct in 1862 |
| Marquess of Breadalbane [3] | 12 September 1831 | |||||
| 4 | William Cathcart 10th Lord Cathcart |
10 January 1788 | 29 September 1812 | Viscount Cathcart | 9 November 1807 | |
| Earl Cathcart | 16 July 1814 | |||||
| 5 | James Hope-Johnstone 3rd Earl of Hopetoun[4] |
8 May 1784 | 11 June 1790 | Baron Hopetoun | 3 November 1809 | |
| 23 October 1794 | 20 May 1796 | |||||
| 6 | George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen[5] |
4 December 1806 | 10 June 1818 | Viscount Gordon | 16 July 1814 | |
| 7 | John Bowes 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
30 June 1796 | 24 October 1806 | Baron Bowes [6] | 7 August 1815 | |
| 9 June 1807 | 29 September 1812 | |||||
| 8 | George Ramsay 9th Earl of Dalhousie |
30 June 1796 | 24 October 1806 | Baron Dalhousie [7] | 11 August 1815 | |
| 9 June 1807 | 10 June 1818 | |||||
| 9 | George Gordon 5th Earl of Aboyne |
30 June 1796 | 24 October 1806 | Baron Meldrum | 11 August 1815 | |
| 9 June 1807 | 10 June 1818 | |||||
| 10 | George Boyle 4th Earl of Glasgow |
24 July 1790 | 10 June 1818 | Baron Ross [8] | 11 August 1815 | |
| 11 | William Kerr 6th Marquess of Lothian |
17 April 1817 | 27 April 1824 | Baron Ker of Kersehugh | 17 July 1821 | |
| 12 | Archibald Primrose 4th Earl of Rosebery |
24 July 1818 | 24 July 1830 | Baron Rosebery | 26 January 1828 | |
| 13 | William Hay 18th Earl of Erroll[9] |
2 October 1823 | 23 April 1831 | Baron Kilmarnock | 17 June 1831 | |
| 14 | Robert Hamilton 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton |
18 March 1819 | 3 December 1832 | Baron Hamilton of Wishaw [10] | 10 September 1831 | |
| 15 | Lucius Cary 10th Viscount Falkland |
3 June 1831 | 3 December 1832 | Baron Hunsdon [11] | 15 May 1832 | |
| 16 | Charles Douglas 6th Marquess of Queensberry |
13 November 1812 | 3 December 1832 | Baron Solway [12] | 7 June 1833 | |
| 17 | John Ogilvy-Grant 7th Earl of Seafield |
16 November 1853 | 23 April 1859 | Baron Strathspey [13] [14] | 14 August 1858 | |
| 18 | John Elphinstone 13th Lord Elphinstone |
14 January 1833 | 29 December 1834 | Baron Elphinstone [15] | 21 May 1859 | |
| 8 September 1847 | 23 April 1859 | |||||
| 19 | James Sinclair 14th Earl of Caithness |
29 June 1858 | 11 November 1868 | Baron Barrogill [16] | 1 May 1866 | |
| 20 | John Rollo 10th Lord Rollo |
15 November 1860 | 11 November 1868 | Baron Dunning | 29 June 1869 | |
| 21 | Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home | 19 January 1842 | 26 January 1874 | Baron Douglas of Douglas | 11 June 1875 | |
| 22 | William Elphinstone 15th Lord Elphinstone |
27 November 1867 | 18 November 1885 | Baron Elphinstone | 30 December 1885 | |
| 23 | Charles Colville 10th Lord Colville of Culross |
6 August 1851 | 18 November 1885 | Baron Colville of Culross | 31 December 1885 | |
| Viscount Colville of Culross | 15 July 1902 | |||||
| 24 | Claude Bowes-Lyon 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
4 August 1870 | 28 June 1892 | Baron Bowes | 1 July 1887 |
See also
References
- ^ Extinct on 22 March 1863
- ^ 8 November 1862
- ^ 8 November 1862
- ^ Now the Marquess of Linlithgow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
- ^ Now the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
- ^ Extinct on 3 July 1820
- ^ Extinct on 22 December 1860
- ^ Extinct on 23 April 1890
- ^ Now the Baron Kilmarnock is a separate title from 24 January 1941.
- ^ Extinct on 22 December 1868
- ^ Extinct on 12 March 1884
- ^ Extinct on 3 December 1837
- ^ Extinct on 31 March 1884
- ^ Now the Baron Strathspey is a separate title.
- ^ Extinct on 19 July 1860
- ^ Extinct on 25 May 1889
- "Representative Peers – Scotland". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.
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