Irvine in Ayrshire was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Irvine, Ayr, Campbeltown, Inveraray and Rothesay formed the Ayr district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of burgh commissioners
1579–87: Hugh CampbellG. Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Campbells, vol. II (1921) p. 57. 1648: Robert Brown 1649–51: Robert Barclay 1661: Alan Dunlop the younger of Craig, provost 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669: Robert Cunningham, provost (died c.1670) 1673–74: Arthur Hamilton, town clerk 1678 convention: John Montgomerie the younger of Bench, merchant-burgess 1685–86: George Leslie, baillie 1689 convention, 1689–1702: Alexander Cuninghame of Chirrislands 1702–05: Alexander Cunynghame of Collellan (died c.1705) 1705–07: George Monro, baillie
See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
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