Renfrewshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Renfrew elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to three in 1690.

From 1708 Renfrewshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of shire commissioners

1593: Sir Patrick Houston of that Ilk
1593: Sir John Maxwell of Pollok
1612: names unknown
1617: Sir John Maxwell, 1st Baronet, of Pollok
1617: Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk
1621: William Semple of Fulwood
1633: Patrick Fleming of Barrochan
1633, 1661–62: Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall
1639–41: Sir Patrick Maxwell of Newark
1639–41, 1645–47: Sir Ludovic Houston of that Ilk[1][2]
1643: William Cunningham of Craigends
1643–44, 1644, 1649, 1667: John Shaw of Greenock[3][4]
1644–45, 1650: John Brisbane of Bishopton
1645: Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston
1645–47: Sir James Muir of Caldwell
1648: Alexander Porterfield of that Ilk
1649–50: Sir George Maxwell of Pollok
1661: Patrick Houston, fiar of that Ilk[1][2]
1667: Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall[5]
1669–70: Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk[6]
1669–74, 1678, 1681–82: Sir John Shaw of Greenock[3][4]
1681–82, 1685–86: William Hamilton of Orbistoun [7]
1685–86, 1702–07: John Houston, younger of that Ilk (Sir John from 1696)[1][2]
1689–93, 1695–96, 1698–99: Sir John Maxwell of Pollok (appointed Lord Justice Clerk, 1699)[8]
1689–95: William Coningham of Craigends (expelled)[9]
1690–98: John Caldwell of that Ilk (died c.1700)[9]
1700-02: Alexander Porterfield of that Ilk[9]
1700–01, 1702–04: John Stewart, younger of Blackhall[5]
1700–02, 1702–07: Sir Robert Pollok of that Ilk[10]

M. D. Young, The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners (1993) vol. II, p. 798.