- Source: List of elections of Scottish representative peers
After the Acts of Union 1707, the peerage of Scotland elected sixteen of their number, the Scottish representative peers, to sit in the House of Lords at Westminster. General elections were held with each Parliament, and by-elections to fill vacancies in between. The elections ceased after the Peerage Act 1963 granted all peers of Scotland an hereditary seat in the House of Lords.
The first election of Scottish representative peers took place on 15 February 1707 at the Parliament House, Edinburgh, shortly before the Parliament of Scotland was adjourned for the last time on 25 March. The commissioners for the barons and the burghs chose their representatives to the British House of Commons at the same time.
List of elections since the Union
References
Sir James Fergusson, The Sixteen Peers of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 1960) Appendix D, pp. 162–166.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of Scottish representative peers
- List of elections of Scottish representative peers
- Representative peer
- List of Irish representative peers
- 1955 Scottish representative peers election
- 1959 Scottish representative peers election
- 1958 Scottish representative peer by-election
- Peerage of Scotland
- House of Lords Act 1999
- January 1908 Irish representative peer election
