Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet
Scottish politician
Biography
Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, (18 October 1846 – 16 March 1927) 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. In October 1901 he received a degree in law (LL.D.) from the University of St Andrews.
He was an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1906 to 1918, and for the Combined Scottish Universities from 1918 until his death in 1927.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1888, and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1897. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1918, and in the New Year Honours List 1926, he was made a baronet, of Kennoway, in the County of Fife.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom
Family
- Spouse(s)
- Fanny Esther Duffield
- Children
- Sir George Lillie Craik, 2nd Bt.Henry Duffield Craik
Awards & honours (2)
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
- baronet
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