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List of Scottish representative peers

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.

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, a Scottish representative peer 1707 to 1713, 1715 to 1761.
The Earl of Mar, a Scottish representative peer between 1707 and 1715.
The 2nd Duke of Queensberry, a Scottish representative peer between 1707 and 1708.
The 1st Earl of Seafield, later 4th Earl of Findlater, a Scottish representative peer between 1707 and 1710, 1712 and 1715 and 1722 and 1730.
The 2nd Earl of Stair, a Scottish representative peer between 1707 and 1708, 1715 and 1734 and 1744 and 1747.
The 1st Earl of Orkney, a Scottish representative peer between 1708 and 1737.
The 9th Earl Marischal, a Scottish representative peer between 1710 and 1712.
The 1st Earl of Portmore, a Scottish representative peer between 1713 and 1715.
The 3rd Earl of Hyndford, a Scottish representative peer between 1738 and 1767.
The 3rd Duke of Gordon, a Scottish representative peer between 1747 and 1752.
The 3rd Earl of Breadalbane, a Scottish representative peer between 1752 and 1768.
The 7th Viscount of Stormont, later 2nd Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish representative peer between 1754 and 1796.
The 11th Earl of Eglinton, a Scottish representative peer between 1776 and 1796.
The 6th Earl of Balcarres, a Scottish representative peer between 1784 and 1796 and 1802 and 1825.
The 8th Earl of Lauderdale, a Scottish representative peer between 1790 and 1796.
The 5th Earl of Selkirk, a Scottish representative peer between 1806 and 1818.
The 9th Lord Napier, a Scottish representative peer between 1824 and 1832.
The 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, a Scottish representative peer between 1852 and 1865.
The 12th Earl of Dundonald, a Scottish representative peer between 1886 and 1922.
The 19th Earl of Rothes, a Scottish representative peer between 1906 and 1923.
The 13th Earl of Dundonald, a Scottish representative peer between 1941 and 1955.
The 10th Earl of Selkirk, a Scottish representative peer between 1945 and 1963.
The 10th Duke of Atholl, a Scottish representative peer between 1958 and 1963.

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

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1750–1799

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1800–1849

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1850–1899

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1900–1963

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Representative peers with a qualifying title

Since the Act of Union 1707

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Since the Act of Union 1801

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  1. [1]
    Extinct on 22 October 1778
  2. [2]
    Both titles Extinct on 28 May 1836 (Gordon family)
  3. [3]
    Extinct on 8 May 1957
  4. [4]
    Extinct on 17 July 1827
  5. [5]
    Extinct on 22 March 1863
  6. [6]
    Dormant since 1995
  7. [7]
    Extinct on 8 November 1862
  8. [8]
    Extinct on 8 November 1862
  9. [9]
    Now the Marquess of Linlithgow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
  10. [10]
    Now the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
  11. [11]
    Extinct on 3 July 1820
  12. [12]
    Extinct on 22 December 1860
  13. [13]
    Extinct on 23 April 1890
  14. [14]
    Now the Baron Kilmarnock is a separate title from 24 January 1941.
  15. [15]
    Extinct on 22 December 1868
  16. [16]
    Extinct on 12 March 1884
  17. [17]
    Extinct on 3 December 1837
  18. [18]
    Extinct on 31 March 1884
  19. [19]
    Now the Baron Strathspey is a separate title.
  20. [20]
    Extinct on 19 July 1860
  21. [21]
    Extinct on 25 May 1889
  1. [N 1]
    As an incumbent Representative Peer, the Peer was an automatic seat in the House of Lords which a peerage of Great Britain and United Kingdom was created.
  • "Representative Peers – Scotland". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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