Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. The constituency represented the parliamentary burghs of Inverness, Fortrose, Forres and Nairn. A burgh constituency is a type of parliamentary constituency in Scotland. ... // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Act of Union 1707 and pre-Union Scottish legislation provided for 14 Members of Parliament from Scotland to be elected from districts of Burghs. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... 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). ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... A burgh constituency is a type of parliamentary constituency in Scotland. ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Highland council area and the Highlands of Scotland. ... Fortrose is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, located on the Moray Firth, approximately ten kilometres north east of Inverness. ... Suenos Stone in Forres The Royal Burgh of Forres (Gaelic: Farrais), an ancient burgh, is situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast. ... The Royal Burgh of Nairn (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann), formally North Nairnville, is a burgh in The Highlands of Scotland, lying about fifteen miles east of Inverness on the coast of the Moray Firth. ...

In 1918 the constituency was dissolved, with the burgh of Inverness and the mainland and Inner Hebridean areas of Inverness-shire being combined to form the new constituency of Inverness, Forres and Nairn being merged into Moray and Nairn and Fortrose being merged into to Ross and Cromarty. The Hebrides (Inner Hebrides in red) The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. ... Inverness was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918, when it was divided or merged into Inverness, Ross and Cromarty and Western Isles. ... Moray and Nairn was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. ... Ross and Cromarty was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. ...

The constituency of Inverness was altered to Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber in 1983, incorporating part of Moray and Nairn. The name was changed again in 1997 to Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. The latest version is Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

There is also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the House of Commons constituency of that name. Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. ...

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Inverness Burghs (1708-1918)

• 1708 Alexander Duff

• 1710 George Mackenzie

• 1713 William Steuart

• 1722 Alexander Gordon

• 1722 Duncan Forbes

• 1737 Duncan Urquhart

• 1741 Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron Fortrose

• 1747 Alexander Brodie

• 1754 John Campbell

• 1761 Sir Alexander Grant

• 1768 Sir Hector Munro

• 1802 Alexander Penrose Cumming-Gordon

• 1803 George Cumming

• 1806 Francis William Grant, later Earl of Seafield

• 1807 Peter Baillie

• 1811 Charles Grant, later Baron Glenelg

• 1818 George Cumming

• 1826 Robert Grant

• 1830 John Baillie

• 1831 Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce

• 1832 John Baillie

• 1833 Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce

• 1837 Roderick MacLeod

• 1840 James Morrison

• 1847 Alexander Matheson

• 1868 Aeneas William Mackintosh

• 1874 Charles Fraser-Mackintosh

• 1885 Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later Viscount Finlay Liberal

• 1892 Gilbert Beith

• 1895 Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later Viscount Finlay Liberal

• 1906 John Annan Bryce Liberal

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Inverness (1918-1983)

• 1918-1922: Thomas Brash Morison, Liberal
• 1922-1950: Sir Murdoch Macdonald
• 1950-1954: Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, Conservative
• 1954-1964: Neil McLean, Conservative
• 1964-1983: Russell Johnston, Liberal

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Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (1983-1997)

• 1983 Sir David Russell Johnston, later Baron Russell-Johnston

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Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (1997-2005)

• 1997 David John Stewart Labour

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Election results

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See also

• Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Burgh