Dumfriesshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 2005. A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...

Members of Parliament

1708 James Johnston, Lord Johnston later Marquess of Annandale

1709 William Grierson

1711 James Murray

1713 Sir William Johnstone

1722 Charles Areskine

1741 Sir John Douglas

1747 Lord Charles Douglas

1755 James Veitch

1761 Archibald Douglas

1774 Sir Robert Laurie

1804 Sir William Johnstone Hope

1830 John James Hope Johnstone

1847 Archibald William Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, later Marquess of Queensberry

1857 John James Hope Johnstone

1865 George Gustavus Walker

1868 Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow

1869 George Gustavus Walker

1874 John James Hope Johnstone

1880 Sir Robert Jardine

1892 William Jardine Herries Maxwell

1895 Robinson Souttar

1900 William Jardine Herries Maxwell

1906 Percy Alport Molteno

1918 William Murray

1922 William Allan Chapple

1924 John Charteris

1929 Joseph Hunter

1935 Sir Henry Fildes

1945 Major Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson, later Baron Drumalbyn National Liberal, Conservative

1963 David Colville Anderson

1964 Hector Seymour Peter Monro, later Baron Monro of Langholm Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, PC (born 4 October 1922), is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ...

1997 Russell Leslie Brown Russell Leslie Brown (born September 17, 1951) is a United Kingdom politician, and Labour member of Parliament for Dumfries. ...