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'''Haddingtonshire ''' was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918.
Before the Act of Union 1707, the barons of the constabulary of Haddington (now called East Lothian) elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. After 1708, Haddingtonshire returned one member to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "haddingtonshire".
At the age of twenty she married Alexander Brunton, minister of Bolton in Haddingtonshire, and afterwards professor of oriental languages at Edinburgh.
Agnes Williamson, residing at Samuelston, Haddingtonshire, was indicted for witchcraft.
This is an isolated hill in Haddingtonshire, some twenty miles east of Edinburgh, on the Whittingehame estate of Mr.