List of Scottish representative peers facts for kids

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.

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.

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

1750–1799

1800–1849

1850–1899

1900–1963

Representative peers with a qualifying title

Since the Act of Union 1707

• Peerage of Great Britain

No	Representative peer	Elected	Ceased	Title		Created	Note
1	James Douglas 2nd Duke of Queensberry	13 February 1707	15 April 1708	Duke of Dover		26 May 1708
2	James Hamilton 4th Duke of Hamilton	17 June 1708	15 November 1712	Duke of Brandon		10 September 1711
3	Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon	1 October 1767	25 March 1784	Earl of Norwich		2 July 1784
4	John Murray 4th Duke of Atholl	17 October 1780	25 March 1784	Earl Strange		18 August 1786
5	James Hamilton 8th Earl of Abercorn	5 May 1761	14 February 1787	Viscount Hamilton		24 August 1786
6	George Douglas 16th Earl of Morton	8 May 1784	11 June 1790	Baron Douglas of Lochleven		11 August 1791
7	Francis Stuart 9th Earl of Moray	8 May 1784	20 May 1796	Baron Stuart of Castle Stuart		4 June 1796
8	John Stewart 7th Earl of Galloway	15 November 1774	11 June 1790	Baron Stewart of Garlies		6 June 1796

Since the Act of Union 1801

• Peerage of the United Kingdom

No	Representative peer	Elected	Ceased	Title		Created	Note
1	Hugh Montgomerie 12th Earl of Eglinton	15 August 1798	24 October 1806	Baron Ardrossan		21 February 1806
2	James Maitland 8th Earl of Lauderdale	24 July 1790	20 May 1796	Baron Lauderdale of Thirlestane		22 February 1806
3	John Campbell 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland	8 May 1784	24 October 1806	Baron Breadalbane		13 November 1806
				Marquess of Breadalbane		12 September 1831
4	William Cathcart 10th Lord Cathcart	10 January 1788	29 September 1812	Viscount Cathcart		9 November 1807
				Earl Cathcart		16 July 1814
5	James Hope-Johnstone 3rd Earl of Hopetoun	8 May 1784	11 June 1790	Baron Hopetoun		3 November 1809
		23 October 1794	20 May 1796
6	George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen	4 December 1806	10 June 1818	Viscount Gordon		16 July 1814
7	John Bowes 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Bowes		7 August 1815
		9 June 1807	29 September 1812
8	George Ramsay 9th Earl of Dalhousie	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Dalhousie		11 August 1815
		9 June 1807	10 June 1818
9	George Gordon 5th Earl of Aboyne	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Meldrum		11 August 1815
		9 June 1807	10 June 1818
10	George Boyle 4th Earl of Glasgow	24 July 1790	10 June 1818	Baron Ross		11 August 1815
11	William Kerr 6th Marquess of Lothian	17 April 1817	27 April 1824	Baron Ker of Kersehugh		17 July 1821
12	Archibald Primrose 4th Earl of Rosebery	24 July 1818	24 July 1830	Baron Rosebery		26 January 1828
13	William Hay 18th Earl of Erroll	2 October 1823	23 April 1831	Baron Kilmarnock		17 June 1831
14	Robert Hamilton 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton	18 March 1819	3 December 1832	Baron Hamilton of Wishaw		10 September 1831
15	Lucius Cary 10th Viscount Falkland	3 June 1831	3 December 1832	Baron Hunsdon		15 May 1832
16	Charles Douglas 6th Marquess of Queensberry	13 November 1812	3 December 1832	Baron Solway		7 June 1833
17	John Ogilvy-Grant 7th Earl of Seafield	16 November 1853	23 April 1859	Baron Strathspey		14 August 1858
18	John Elphinstone 13th Lord Elphinstone	14 January 1833	29 December 1834	Baron Elphinstone		21 May 1859
		8 September 1847	23 April 1859
19	James Sinclair 14th Earl of Caithness	29 June 1858	11 November 1868	Baron Barrogill		1 May 1866
20	John Rollo 10th Lord Rollo	15 November 1860	11 November 1868	Baron Dunning		29 June 1869
21	Cospatrick Douglas-Home 11th Earl of Home	19 January 1842	26 January 1874	Baron Douglas of Douglas		11 June 1875
22	William Elphinstone 15th Lord Elphinstone	27 November 1867	18 November 1885	Baron Elphinstone		30 December 1885
23	Charles Colville 10th Lord Colville of Culross	6 August 1851	18 November 1885	Baron Colville of Culross		31 December 1885
				Viscount Colville of Culross		15 July 1902
24	Claude Bowes-Lyon 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	4 August 1870	28 June 1892	Baron Bowes		1 July 1887

See also

• List of elections of Scottish representative peers
• List of Irish representative peers