List of Scottish representative peers

The 1st Earl of Ilay, later 3rd Duke of Argyll, a Scottish representative peer between 1707 and 1713.

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[]

1900–1949[]

1950–1963[]

Representative peers with a title in the Peerage of Great Britain or the Peerage of the United Kingdom[]

Since the Act of Union 1707[]

No	Representative peer	Elected	Ceased	Title	Created	Note
1	James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry			Duke of Dover		GB Title Extinct in 1778
2	James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton[note 1]			Duke of Brandon		Both Titles are Extant
3	Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon			Earl of Norwich		Both Titles are Extinct (Gordon family)
4	John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl			Earl Strange		GB Title Extinct in 1957
5	James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn			Viscount Hamilton		Both Titles are Extant
6	George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton			Baron Douglas of Lochleven		GB Title Extinct in 1827
7	Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray			Baron Stuart of Castle Stuart		Both Titles are Extant
8	John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway			Baron Stewart of Garlies		Both Titles are Extant

Since the Act of Union 1801[]

No	Representative peer	Elected	Ceased	Title	Created	Note
1	Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton[note 1]	15 August 1798	24 October 1806	Baron Ardrossan	21 February 1806	Both Titles are Extant
2	James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale	24 July 1790	20 May 1796	Baron Lauderdale of Thirlestane	22 February 1806	UK Title Extinct in 1863
3	John Campbell, 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland[1]	8 May 1784	24 October 1806	Baron Breadalbane	13 November 1806	Scottish Title is Dormant, UK Title Extinct in 1862
4	William Cathcart, 10th Lord Cathcart[2] [note 1]	10 January 1788	29 September 1812	Viscount Cathcart	9 November 1807	Both Titles are Extant
5	James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun[3]	8 May 1784	11 June 1790	Baron Hopetoun	3 November 1809	Both Titles are Extant
		23 October 1794	20 May 1796
6	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen[4] [note 1]	4 December 1806	10 June 1818	Viscount Gordon	16 July 1814	Both Titles are Extant
7	John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Bowes	7 August 1815	UK Title Extinct in 1820
		9 June 1807	29 September 1812
8	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie[note 1]	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Dalhousie	11 August 1815	UK Title Extinct in 1860
		9 June 1807	10 June 1818
9	George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne[note 1]	30 June 1796	24 October 1806	Baron Meldrum	11 August 1815	Both Titles are Extant
		9 June 1807	10 June 1818
10	George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow[note 1]	24 July 1790	10 June 1818	Baron Ross	11 August 1815	UK Title Extinct in 1890
11	William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian[note 1]	17 April 1817	27 April 1824	Baron Ker of Kersehugh	17 July 1821	Both Titles are Extant
12	Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery[note 1]	24 July 1818	24 July 1830	Baron Rosebery	26 January 1828	Both Titles are Extant
13	William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll[5]	2 October 1823	23 April 1831	Baron Kilmarnock	17 June 1831	Both Titles are Extant
14	Robert Hamilton, 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton[note 1]	18 March 1819	3 December 1832	Baron Hamilton of Wishaw	10 September 1831	UK Title Extinct in 1868
15	Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland[note 1]	3 June 1831	3 December 1832	Baron Hunsdon	15 May 1832	UK Title Extinct in 1884
16	Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry	13 November 1812	3 December 1832	Baron Solway	7 June 1833	UK Title Extinct in 1837
17	John Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield[6] [note 1]	16 November 1853	23 April 1859	Baron Strathspey	14 August 1858	UK Title Extinct in 1884
18	John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone	14 January 1833	29 December 1834	Baron Elphinstone	21 May 1859	UK Title Extinct in 1860
		8 September 1847	23 April 1859
19	James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness[note 1]	29 June 1858	11 November 1868	Baron Barrogill	1 May 1866	UK Title Extinct in 1889
20		15 November 1860	11 November 1868	Baron Dunning	29 June 1869	Both Titles are Extant
21	Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home	19 January 1842	26 January 1874	Baron Douglas of Douglas	11 June 1875	Both Titles are Extant
22	William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone	27 November 1867	18 November 1885	Baron Elphinstone	30 December 1885	Both Titles are Extant
23	Charles Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross[7]	6 August 1851	18 November 1885	Baron Colville of Culross	31 December 1885	Both Titles are Extant
24	Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne[note 1]	4 August 1870	28 June 1892	Baron Bowes	1 July 1887	Both Titles are Extant

See also[]

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

References[]

• "Representative Peers – Scotland". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)