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    Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Shalcraig) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland. It borders Peeblesshire...
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    Selkirkshire is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Scottish Borders Council. It elects three Councillors. 2022 Scottish Borders Council...
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    the historic shires of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire. The Scottish Borders are in the eastern part of the Southern Uplands...
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  • considered him out of the question, but in 1802 procured his return for Selkirkshire. In December 1803, he became vice-lieutenant in Roxburghshire. After...
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    Selkirk, Scottish Borders (category Selkirkshire)
    Selkirk's population was 5,784. Selkirk was formerly the county town of Selkirkshire. Selkirk is one of the oldest Royal Burghs in Scotland and is the site...
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    The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55),...
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  • Selkirkshire was a Scottish county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1868, when...
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    Peeblesshire Glensaxon, Dumfriesshire Glen Shiel, Ross and Cromarty Glentanner, Selkirkshire Glentenmont, Dumfriesshire Glenturk, Wigtownshire Glenturret, Perthshire...
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  • judge and politician, shire commissioner for Selkirk 1702–07, MP for Selkirkshire 1708–29, Lord of Session Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707–1782), Scottish...
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    editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland...
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    Dumfriesshire. It is unclear if the Gaelic of 12th-century Clydesdale and Selkirkshire came from Galloway or other parts of Scotland. The predominance of Gaelic...
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  • Eliot Conservative Lord Eliot Conservative Chief Secretary for Ireland Selkirkshire 21 September 1841 Alexander Pringle Conservative Alexander Pringle Conservative...
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    Perils of Woman (1823). James Hogg was born on a small farm near Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland in 1770 and was baptised there on 9 December, his actual date...
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    John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch (category Lord-Lieutenants of Selkirkshire)
    includes Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Bowhill House in Selkirkshire, and Boughton House in Northamptonshire. A fourth house, Dalkeith Palace...
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    Tower house in Selkirkshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK...
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    assured by "the late excellent antiquarian Mr. Plummer, sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire... that he remembered the insignia of the unicorns, &c. so often mentioned...
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    well as serving as Justice of the Peace (JP) for Selkirkshire, Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Selkirkshire, and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Roxburghshire. The...
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    European explorers and colonial ambitions in Africa. Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near Selkirk, on a tenant...
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    Moray – Elginshire Peeblesshire – Tweeddale Roxburghshire – Teviotdale Selkirkshire – Ettrick Forest West Lothian – Linlithgowshire In Scotland, as in England...
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  • Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Argyll Northern Counties Perthshire Selkirkshire Southern Counties Aberdeen Bon Accord Caledonian Orion Stonehaven Victoria...
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    TA23 Watchet Somerset TA TA24 Minehead Somerset TD TD01 TD1 Galashiels Selkirkshire TD TD02 TD2 Lauder Berwickshire TD TD03 TD3 GORDON Berwickshire TD TD04...
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  • Ludgershall (1796–1804), and Mitchell (1805–1806) Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (1794–1797), Dumfriesshire (1797–1819), and Midlothian (1812–1819) Daniel...
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    Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, West Lothian, and Wigtownshire. Prior to 1921, the counties of East...
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    Scottish Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire from 1923 until 1935, when he succeeded as Duke of Buccleuch and Duke...
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    comes from the three counties it covers; Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire. A mostly rural constituency, it includes the towns of Coldstream, Duns...
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  • North-West (from 1974) LR London (1916–74) London North-West (from 1974) LS Selkirkshire (1903–74) Stirling (1974–81) Edinburgh (for Stirling) (from 1981) LT...
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    Court Party Yes Mr John Murray of Bowhill Selkirkshire Court Party Yes Mr John Pringle of Haining Selkirkshire Court Party Yes William Morison of Prestongrange...
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    Peeblesshire. It is also sometimes (erroneously) given as the county top of Selkirkshire. This is because in 1891, the area of Megget (a detached part of Lyne...
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    Library in Australia. Montagu sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1861 to 1868 and for South Hampshire from 1868 to 1884. He was official...
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    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...
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