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Peeblesshire (Siorrachd nam Pùballan in Gaelic), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lanarkshire to the west.
After the local government reorganisation of 1975 the county lost its administrative status, and the area was governed as the district of Tweeddale.
Peeblesshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( Westminster) from 1708 until 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Peebles elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.
From 1708 Peeblesshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Usage examples of "peeblesshire".
He was born at Tweedsmuir, in the upland pastoral district of Peeblesshire, where his father was a farmer.
Affleck was born in the village of Drummelzier, in Peeblesshire, on the 8th September 1776.