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Renfrewshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Renfrew elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.

From 1708 Renfrewshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of shire commissioners

  • 1639–41, 1645–47: Sir Ludovic Houston of that Ilk
  • 1643–44, 1644, 1649, 1667: John Shaw of Greenock
  • 1661: Patrick Houston, fiar of that Ilk
  • 1667: Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall
  • 1669–70: Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk
  • 1669–74, 1678, 1681–82: Sir John Shaw of Greenock
  • 1685–86, 1702–07: John Houston, younger of that Ilk (Sir John from 1696)
  • 1689–93, 1695–96, 1698–99: Sir John Maxwell of Pollok
  • 1700–04: John Stewart, younger of Blackhall
  • 1700–07: Sir Robert Pollok of that Ilk

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