Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle (28 February 1883 – 29 September 1944) was a Scottish

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 Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Life

Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

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 (where he was President of the Union in 1905) and being called to the bar in 1908. In 1913 he married Lady Margaret Cargill Mackay, who gave him one son and three daughters. During the First World War he served in the Royal Marine Artillery and was involved in the Battle of the Somme.. Outside Parliament, he was a director of the Bank of England

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 and Chairman of P & O.
The son of the Law Lord Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle PC KC LLD , known as Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge....

, he succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1937. On his own death in 1944, aged 61, he was succeeded by his only son Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw

Thomas Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle

Thomas Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle, 1923-1998 ~ Philanthropist.Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw, The Lord Craigmyle, was the son of the 2nd Baron Craigmyle and born on 17 November 1923. He died on the 30th April 1998....

 (1923–1998).

Parliamentary career

He was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Kilmarnock Burghs

Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at a by-election in 1915, and held the seat until its abolition for the 1918 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1918

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. He was then elected as a Coalition Liberal for the new county constituency of Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)

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, retaining the seat as a Liberal in 1922

United Kingdom general election, 1922

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. He resigned

Resignation from the British House of Commons

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 from the House of Commons on 12 November 1923 by the procedural device of accepting a nominal appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. no by-election was held, and the seat remained vacant when Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 was dissolved on 16 November for the 1923 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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