Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet

Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet (1859 – 9 April 1933)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Crewe division of Cheshire at a by-election in July 1912 after the death of his Liberal predecessor, Walter McLaren.[2] Craig did not stand for re-election in 1918, when the seat was won a Coalition Liberal, and his next candidacy was at the 1924 general election, when he won the seat in a straight contest with the sitting Labour Party MP Edward Hemmerde. He stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.[3]

In the King's Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire.[4][5]

Ernest Craig, before becoming a politician, along with many other Englishmen went west to the USA and to New Mexico in particular. He owned the Last Chance Mine in Mogollon, Grant County, New Mexico, and a picture survives of him in 1908 seated in a motor vehicle at Hudson Springs (now Faywood Hot Springs). He introduced innovative methods of extracting gold. He also established a horse and buggy transport for mining company property movement between Mogollon and Silver City. His only child, Ernestine, later acquired the Mimbres Hot Springs, a few miles from Faywood. Her son Craig Wheaton-Smith managed the Mimbres Hot Springs ranch, and her grandson Simon Wheaton-Smith (Ernest Craig's great grandson) also resides in Silver City, New Mexico.

References

^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 231. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 303. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

^ The London Gazette: no. 33280. p. 3603. 31 May 1927. Retrieved 2009-05-07.

^ The London Gazette: no. 33292. p. 4406. 8 July 1927. Retrieved 2009-05-07.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ernest Craig

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Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet (1859 – 9 April 1933)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Crewe divison of Cheshire at a by-election in July 1912 after the death of his Liberal predecessor, Walter McLaren.[2] Craig did not stand for re-election in 1918, when the seat was won a Coalition Liberal, and his next candidacy was at the 1924 general election, when he won the seat in a straight contest with the sitting Labour Party MP Edward Hemmerde. He stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.[3]

In the King's Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire.[4][5]

From NYT 4-11-33

Educated at the Sandbach Grammer School Canton Schule of Zurich, and the college of physical science newcastle. Author of "working of rearer coal measures"

Son of William Young Craig and Harriet Milton Craig. Father was also a mining engineer.

Ernest was created a baronet in 1927 by King George V in recognition of his services as a member of parliment and a mining engineer. Served in parliment as a conservative from 1912-1918 and 1924-1929.