Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Wigtownshire
Type = County
Year = 1708
Abolition = 1918

Wigtownshire, was a 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 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.

The first British general election in Wigtownshire was in 1708. In 1707-08, members of the 1702-1707 Parliament of Scotland were co-opted to serve in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. See Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, for further details.

In 1918 the area was combined with Kirkcudbrightshire to form the Galloway constituency.

Boundaries

Wigtownshire was a Scottish shire (later known as a county), which had previously been represented by two commissioners in the former Parliament of Scotland. The constituenency included the whole shire, except that between 1708-1885 the burghs of Stranraer, New Galloway, Whithorn and Wigtown, formed part of the Wigtown Burghs constituency.

Members of Parliament

*17 June 1708 John Stewart (c 1670-1748)
*10 November 1710 Patrick Vanse
*3 March 1711 John Stewart (c. 1670-1748)
*21 September 1727 William Dalrymple
*15 May 1741 John Stewart (c 1699-1768)
*31 July 1747 John Stewart (?-c 1769)
*23 April 1761 John Hamilton
*18 March 1762 James Murray
*22 April 1768 Keith Stewart
*17 September 1784 Andrew McDouall
*17 June 1796 William Stewart
*27 July 1802 Andrew McDouall
*15 April 1805 William Maxwell
*28 October 1812 William Stewart
*2 August 1816 James Hunter-Blair
*30 July 1822 Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith
*17 August 1830 Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet
*5 August 1837 James Blair
*15 July 1841 John Hamilton Dalrymple, later Earl of Stair
*9 February 1856 Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet
*21 November 1868 Alan Plantagenet Stewart, Lord Garlies, later Earl of Galloway
*24 February 1873 Robert Vans-Agnew
*10 April 1880 Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell
*23 January 1906 John James Hamilton Dalrymple, Viscount Dalrymple, later Earl of Stair
*12 February 1915 Hew Hamilton Dalrymple

Elections

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Viscount Dalrymple
votes = 2,866
percentage = 57.4
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Capt. Walter Waring
votes = 2,127
percentage = 42.6
change =

In July 1886 Sir Herbert Maxwell accepted office as a Junior Lord of the Treasury and on a new election on 12 August 1886 was returned unopposed.

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt
votes = 2,920
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John Phillips Coldstream
votes = 1,719
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt
votes = 2,920
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Hon Hew Hamilton Dalrymple
votes = 2,625
percentage =
change =

References

*rayment

See also