Cromartyshire

The only burgh of Cromartyshire was the county town, Cromarty.

A number of sheriffdoms, such as those of Ross and Cromartyshire were also merged during the 18th century.

This was especially notable in the case of Cromartyshire, which was split into at least nine parts spread across Ross-shire.

This is a list of Lord Lieutenants of Cromartyshire, Scotland.

Cromartyshire's borders, a particularly fragmentary example, were achieved as late as 1685, although at that time the word "county" was not applied to the sheriffdom.

In 1832 it was merged with the Cromartyshire constituency to form the Ross and Cromarty constituency.

The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Inverness Burghs and Cromartyshire.

It was to be the La Bourgognes last voyage; the vessel collided with the British ship Cromartyshire, with near complete loss of life.

On July 4, 1898 she was sunk in collision in dense fog with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire off Sable Island.

The third Baronet was one of the Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain and later represented Cromartyshire.

The county bordered on Sutherland, Cromartyshire (of which it contained many exclaves), Inverness-shire and an exclave of Nairnshire.

He represented Cromartyshire twice in Parliament before the Scottish Reform Act 1832, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ross-shire from 1879 to his death.

Campbell of Cawdor died in 1777 and was succeeded by his son, Pryse Campbell of Caddell, who was a MP for Cromartyshire and Nairnshire.

He served as a shire commissioner for Cromartyshire in the Parliament of Scotland, and as one of the first Scottish MPs in the new Parliament of Great Britain.

At the general election of 1790 Davidson was elected to Parliament for Cromartyshire with the support of William Pulteney, defeating Alexander Brodie who had the support of Henry Dundas.

As a result of the 1832 Reform Act the pairing system ended, and Elginshire and Nairnshire were merged into a single constituency, as were Ross and Cromartyshire and also Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire.

Unlike in England and Wales, where corresponding legislation created new entities called administrative counties, the Act amended the existing counties for local government purposes, including merging Ross and Cromartyshire into Ross and Cromarty, and setting up a boundary commission to make further changes as necessary.