Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle PC

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 KC LLD (23 May 1850–28 June 1937), known as Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish Liberal

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 politician and judge.

The son of Alexander Shaw of Dunfermline

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, Fife

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, Craigmyle was educated at the High School, Dunfermline and at Edinburgh University. He was appointed an advocate

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 in 1875 and became a Queen's Counsel

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 in 1894. He gained an LLD from St Andrews University in 1902 and from the University of Aberdeen

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 in 1906 and was also Hamilton Fellow in Mental Philosophy at Edinburgh University.

Craigmyle sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Hawick Burghs

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 from 1892 to 1909 and served as Solicitor General for Scotland

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 from 1894 to 1895 and as Lord Advocate

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 from 1905 to 1909. He resigned from parliament and ministerial office and was created a life peer

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 as Baron Shaw, of Dunfermline in the County of Fife, in February 1909, so that he could sit in the House of Lords

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 and serve as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

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. He retired from this office in 1929 and was made a hereditary peer as Baron Craigmyle, of Craigmyle in the County of Aberdeen

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, in the same year.

Lord Craigmyle married Elsie, daughter of George Forrest, in 1879. He died in June 1937, aged 87, and was succeeded in the hereditary barony by his son Alexander

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...

. Lady Craigmyle died in 1939.

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