Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet

For other people named Henry Craik, see Henry Craik (disambiguation).

Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, KCB, 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.[2] In October 1901 he received a degree in law (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 Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1888,[5] and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1897.[6][7] 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.[2][8]

  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