Elginshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Elginshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Elginshire
1708 (1708)–1832 (1832)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Elginshire & Nairnshire

Elginshire, in Scotland, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

In 1832, it was combined with Nairnshire was added to form Elginshire and Nairnshire, which was in turn reconstituted in 1918 as Moray and Nairn, with the incorporation of the burghs of Elgin, Nairn and Forres which had previously been part of Inverness Burghs and Elgin Burghs.

Members of Parliament

• 1708 Robert Urquhart
• 1710 Alexander Grant
• 1720 James Brodie
• 1720 Alexander Brodie
• 1741 Sir Ludovick Grant
• 1761 James Grant
• 1768 Francis Grant
• 1774 Arthur Duff
• 1779 Lord William Gordon
• 1784 James Duff, Earl of Fife
• 1790 Lewis Alexander Grant, later Earl of Seafield
• 1796 James Brodie
• 1807 Francis William Grant, later Earl of Seafield

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)