Baron Craigmyle, of Craigmyle in the County of Aberdeen

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in May 1929 for the Liberal

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 politician and judge Thomas Shaw, Baron Shaw

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 had already in 1909 been given a life peerage

Life peer

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 under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876

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 as Baron Shaw, of Dunfermline

Dunfermline

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 in the County of Fife. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

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 in the House of Lords

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 from 1909 to 1929, when he was rewarded with a hereditary peerage

Hereditary peer

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. On his death in 1937 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the hereditary barony by his son, the second Baron. He notably represented Kilmarnock

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 in Parliament as a Liberal. the title is held by the latter's grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1998.

Barons Craigmyle (1929)

• 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....
  
   (1850–1937)
• Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle
  Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle
  Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.-Life:Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford and being called to the bar in 1908. In 1913 he married Lady Margaret Cargill Mackay, who gave him one son and three daughters...
  
  (1883–1944)
• Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle (1923–1998)
• Thomas Columba Shaw, 4th Baron Craigmyle (b. 1960)