Background Information
Number of seats
1
Constituency business
County
Date Candidate Votes
24 Nov. 1885 MR JOHN HAY ATHOLE MACDONALD (Con)
2,840
Dr J.E. Erichsen (Lib)
2,453
1 July 1886 MR JOHN HAY ATHOLE MACDONALD (Con)
13 Aug. 1886 MR JOHN HAY ATHOLE MACDONALD (Con) Appt of Macdonald as Lord Advocate
6 Nov. 1888 MR MOIR TOD STORMONTH DARLING (Con) Resignation of Macdonald on appt as Lord Justice Clerk: Lord Kingburgh
12 Nov. 1890 SIR CHARLES JOHN PEARSON (Con) Resignation of Darling on appt as a Senator of the College of Justice: Lord Stormonth-Darling
4 July 1892 SIR CHARLES JOHN PEARSON (Con)
13 July 1895 SIR CHARLES JOHN PEARSON (Con)
12 May 1896 SIR WILLIAM OVEREND PRIESTLEY (Con) Resignation of Pearson on appt as a Senator of the College of Justice: Lord Pearson
3 May 1900 SIR JOHN BATTY TUKE (Con) Death of Priestley
1 Oct. 1900 SIR JOHN BATTY TUKE (Con)
12 Jan. 1906 SIR JOHN BATTY TUKE (Con)
4,893
J. St. L. Strachey (FT)
2,310
15 Jan. 1910 MR ROBERT BANNATYNE FINLAY (LU)
5,205
Sir A.R. Simpson (Lib)
2,693
3 Dec. 1910 MR ROBERT BANNATYNE FINLAY (LU)
29 Dec. 1916 MR CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON JOHNSTON (Con) Resignation of Finlay on appt as Lord Chllr and elevation to peerage: Lord Finlay
10 Aug. 1917 SIR WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE (Con) Resignation of Johnston on appt as a Senator of the College of Justice: Lord Sands
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