Clyde Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Clyde Burghs or Glasgow Burghs
Former District of burghs constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Lanarkshire, Dumbartonshire, Renfrewshire
Major settlements	Dumbarton, Glasgow, Rutherglen, Renfrew
1708 (1708)–1832 (1832)
Replaced by	Glasgow constituency Kilmarnock Burghs

Clyde Burghs, also known as Glasgow Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1832. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP).

Boundaries

The constituency consisted of parliamentary burghs along the River Clyde and the Firth of Clyde: Dumbarton in the county of Dumbarton, Glasgow and Rutherglen in the county of Lanark, and Renfrew in the county of Renfrew.

When the district of burghs constituency was abolished in 1832 the Glasgow parliamentary burgh was merged into the then new two-member Glasgow constituency. The Dumbarton, Renfrew and Rutherglen burghs were combined with Kilmarnock burgh and Port Glasgow burgh in the then-new Kilmarnock Burghs constituency.

Members of Parliament

• 1708 Robert Rodger
• 1710 Thomas Smith
• 1716 Daniel Campbell
• 1727 John Blackwood
• 1728 Daniel Campbell
• 1734 William Campbell
• 1741 Neil Buchanan
• 1744 John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later 5th Duke of Argyll
• 1761 Lord Frederick Campbell
• 1780 John Crauford
• 1784 Ilay Campbell
• 1790 John Crauford
• 1790 William McDowall
• 1802 Alexander Houstoun
• 1803 Boyd Alexander
• 1806 Archibald Campbell
• 1809 Alexander Houstoun
• 1812-1818 Kirkman Finlay
• 1818-1820 Alexander Houstoun
• 1820-1831 Archibald Campbell
• 1831-1832 Joseph Dixon

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)