Inverbervie (formerly just Bervie) in Kincardineshire was a royal burgh that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Inverbervie, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Brechin and Montrose formed the Aberdeen district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of burgh commissioners
1612: Arthur Rae
1670: Robert Carnegie
1672–74: Andrew Cuming
1678: John Ayton
1681–82: Alexander Man
1685–86, 1689 (convention), 1689–1702: William Beattie, bailie
1702–1707: Alexander Arbuthnott, after 1704 known as Alexander Maitland
In 1707 Maitland was chosen to be one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain.
See also
List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union
References
Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland, 1882.
Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) Politics of the county of Kincardine History of Aberdeenshire Constituencies disestablished in 1707 1707 disestablishments in Scotland Inverbervie