Scottish Constituencies and MPs


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Aberdeenshire, 1 June 1708 - 20 November 1868

County constituency

Date MP Party
1 June 1708 William Gordon, Lord Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen
18 January 1709 Sir Alexander Cumming Tory
6 April 1722 Sir Archibald Grant (expelled for fraud in 1732) Whig
13 July 1732 Sir Arthur Forbes Whig (opposition Whig from 1739)
28 July 1747 Andrew Mitchell Whig
3 May 1754 Lord Adam Gordon
14 April 1768 Alexander Garden
28 February 1786 George Skene
21 July 1790 James Ferguson
17 October 1820 Hon William Gordon RN Conservative
22 August 1854 George John James Gordon, Lord Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen Liberal
13 February 1861 William Leslie of Warthill and Drumrosie Conservative
15 May 1866 William Dingwall Fordyce of Brucklay Liberal

The constituency was split into Aberdeenshire East and Aberdeenshire West in 1868.


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