Archibald Hastie (MP) explained

Archibald Hastie
Office:	Member of Parliament for Paisley
Term Start:	17 March 1836
Term End:	9 November 1857
Predecessor:	Alexander Graham Speirs
Successor:	Humphrey Crum-Ewing
Birth Place:	1791
Nationality:	British
Party:	Radical

Archibald Hastie (1791 – 9 November 1857)^[1] was a British Radical politician.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Buchan was elected Radical MP for Paisley at a by-election in 1836—caused by the resignation of Alexander Graham Speirs—and held the seat until his death in 1857.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "P" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 3 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101231171753/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm . 31 December 2010 . usurped . 20 March 2018 .
2. Book: Harris . Bob . Smout . T. C. . Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900 . 2005 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 0-19-726330-5 . 210 . https://books.google.com/books?id=LpPDNU8S5oMC&pg=PA210 . . 3 September 2018 . Scottish-English Connections in British Radicalism in the 1790s.
3. Book: Pentland . Gordon . The Spirit of the Union . 2016 . Routledge . London . 978-1-85196-153-5 . 14 . . 3 September 2018.
4. News: Lancaster Gazette . 3 September 2018 . 26 March 1836 . 4 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
5. Book: Craig. F. W. S.. F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885. 1977. Macmillan Press. London. 978-1-349-02349-3. 1st. e-book. 557.