Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet

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Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet,

PC (18 October 1846 – 16 March 1927)[1] was a Scottish Unionist
politician.

He was appointed as a junior examiner of the Committee of Council on Education in 1871 and promoted, in 1878, to the position of Senior examiner until 1885. In this year Scotland got an independent Committee of Council on Education known as the Scotch Education Department. Craik was appointed as its secretary, a post he held from 1885 to 1904.

LL.D.) from the University of St Andrews.[3]

He was an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1906 to 1918,[1] and for the Combined Scottish Universities[4] from 1918 until his death in 1927.

He was made a

New Year Honours List 1926, he was made a baronet, of Kennoway, in the County of Fife.[2][8]

Family

Grave of Sir Henry Craik in Highgate Cemetery.

Craik was born on 18 October 1846 in Glasgow.

Henry Duffield (1876–1955).[10]

Craik died on 16 March 1927 and was buried on the western side of

Punjab from 1938 to 1941.[11]

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet
Crest
An anchor Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a sea in base undy Azure and of the firs a three masted ship under full sail Proper flagged Gules on a chief indented of the last a book expanded of the first leaved Or between two antique lamps of the last.
Motto
Tendimus [12]

References

  1. ^ a b Historical list of MPs: G (part 2)[usurped]
  2. ^ a b Supplement to the London Gazette Issue 33119 published on 29 December 1925. Page 2 of 12
  3. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36595. London. 25 October 1901. p. 5.
  4. ^ Historical list of MPs: S (part 2)[usurped]
  5. ^ Gazette Issue 25773 published on 5 January 1888. Page 123 of 140
  6. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette Issue 26867 published on 25 June 1897. Page 2 of 6
  7. ^ London Gazette Issue 26947 published on 14 March 1898. Page 107 of 150
  8. ^ London Gazette Issue 33131 published on 9 February 1926. Page 4 of 82
  9. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32615. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  10. ^ ThePeerage.com: Sir Henry Craik, 1st Bt.
  11. ^ List of Baronets: C (part 5)[usurped]
  12. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

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