Clyde Burghs, also known as Glasgow Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency

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 of the House of Commons of Great Britain

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 (at Westminster

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) 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

Member of Parliament

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 (MP).

Boundaries

The constituency consisted of parliamentary burghs along the River Clyde

River Clyde

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 and the Firth of Clyde

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: Dumbarton in the county of Dumbarton, Glasgow

Glasgow

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 and Rutherglen

Rutherglen

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 in the county of Lanark, and Renfrew

Renfrew

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 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

Glasgow (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The Dumbarton, Renfrew and Rutherglen burghs were combined with Kilmarnock burgh

Kilmarnock

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 and Port Glasgow burgh

Port Glasgow

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 in the then-new Kilmarnock Burghs

Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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 constituency.

Members of Parliament

• 1708 Robert Rodger
• 1710 Thomas Smith
• 1716 Daniel Campbell
  Daniel Campbell (d. 1753)
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• 1727 John Blackwood
• 1728 Daniel Campbell
  Daniel Campbell (d. 1753)
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• 1734 William Campbell
• 1741 Neil Buchanan
• 1744 John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
  John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
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  , later 5th Duke of Argyll
  Duke of Argyll
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• 1761 Lord Frederick Campbell
• 1780 John Crauford
• 1784 Ilay Campbell
  Sir Ilay Campbell, 1st Baronet
  Sir Ilay Campbell of Succoth was a Scottish judge.An advocate from 1757, he was engaged in the Douglas peerage case from 1764 to 1769. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1783 and Lord Advocate in 1784. He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Burghs in the same year...
  
  
• 1790 John Crauford
• 1790 William McDowall
• 1802 Alexander Houstoun
• 1803 Boyd Alexander
• 1806 Archibald Campbell
• 1809 Alexander Houstoun
• 1812-1818 Kirkman Finlay
  Kirkman Finlay
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• 1818-1820 Alexander Houstoun
• 1820-1831 Archibald Campbell
• 1831-1832 Joseph Dixon