Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities was a university constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It was merged with the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities constituency to form the Combined Scottish Universities constituency.

Electorate

As a University constituency, the constituency had no geographical basis. Instead, its electorate consisted of the graduates of Edinburgh University and St Andrews University.

Members of Parliament

• 1868 Lyon Playfair, later Baron Playfair
• 1885 John Hay Athole Macdonald Conservative
• 1888 Moir Tod Stormont Darling Conservative
• 1890 Sir Charles John Pearson Conservative
• 1896 Sir William Overend Priestley Conservative
• 1900 Sir John Batty Tuke Conservative
• 1910 Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later Viscount Finlay
• 1916 Christopher Nicholson Johnston
• 1917 Sir William Watson Cheyne

Election results

In October 1888 John Macdonald was appointed Lord Justice Clerk. At a bye-election on 6 November 1888, Moir Tod Stormont Darling was elected unopposed as the Conservative candidate.^[1]

At the General Election 1886 John Macdonald was returned unopposed. In July 1886 he accepted office and was reelected unopposed on 13 August.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
2. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889