Inverbervie (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Inverbervie (formerly just Bervie) in Kincardineshire was a royal burgh that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Inverbervie, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Brechin and Montrose formed the Aberdeen district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1612: Arthur Rae[1]
1670: Robert Carnegie[2]
1672–74: Andrew Cuming[3]
1678: John Ayton[4]
1681–82: Alexander Man[5]
1685–86, 1689 (convention), 1689–1702: William Beattie, bailie[6]
1702–1707: Alexander Arbuthnott, after 1704 known as Alexander Maitland[7]

In 1707 Maitland was chosen to be one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain.

See also

List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union

References

Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland, 1882.

Foster, p. 291.
Foster, p. 66.
Foster, p. 84.
Foster, p. 18.
Foster, p. 240.
Foster, p. 25.
MAITLAND, alias ARBUTHNOTT, Hon. Alexander (d. 1721), of Pittrichie, Aberdeen. in The History of Parliament online. Accessed 10 September 2014.

Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union 1707

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