Leith Burghs | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1832 |
Abolished: | 1918 |
Type: | District of burghs |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Previous: | [1] and [2] |
Region: | Scotland |
Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. The constituency represented the parliamentary burghs of Leith, Musselburgh and Portobello.
In 1918 Leith was included in Leith, while Musselburgh and Portobello were merged into Edinburgh East.
Election | Member | Party | ||
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1832 | John Murray | Whig[3] | ||
1839 by-election | Whig[4] | |||
1851 by-election | James Moncreiff | Whig[5] | ||
1859 | Sir William Miller | Liberal | ||
1865 | Sir William Miller | Liberal | ||
1868 | Robert Andrew Macfie | Liberal | ||
1874 | Donald Robert Macgregor | Liberal | ||
1878 | Andrew Grant | Liberal | ||
1885 | William Jacks | Liberal | ||
1886 | Liberal Unionist | |||
1886 | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | ||
1886 | Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | ||
1914 | George Welsh Currie | Unionist | ||
1918 | constituency abolished |