FORFAR (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Forfarshire' was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1950.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency comprised the county of Forfar, except the county of the city of Dundee and the burghs of Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, and Forfar.

Members of Parliament

★ 1708 John Carnegie (expelled)

★ 1716 James Scott

★ 1733 Robert Scott

★ 1734 Thomas Lyon, later Earl of Strathmore

★ 1735 William Maule, Earl of Panmure (from 1743)

★ 1782 Archibald Douglas

★ 1790 David Scott

★ 1796 William Maule, later Baron Panmure

★ 1796 Sir David Carnegie

★ 1805 William Maule, later Baron Panmure

★ 1831 Donald Ogilvy May

★ 1832 Lord Douglas Gordon Hallyburton

★ 1841 Lord John Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton

★ 1852 Lauderdale Maule

★ 1854 Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan, later Earl of Camperdown

★ 1860 Charles Carnegie

★ 1872 James William Barclay

★ 1892 Sir John Rigby, QC

★ 1894 Charles Maule Ramsay

★ 1895 James Martin White

★ 1897 John Sinclair, later Baron Pentland

★ 1909 James Falconer

★ 1918 William Thomas Shaw

★ 1922 James Falconer

★ 1924 Sir Harry Hope

★ 1931 William Thomas Shaw

★ 1945 Simon Ramsay, later Earl of Dalhousie

Election results