Viscount Craigavon, of Stormont in the County of Down, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1927 for Sir James Craig, 1st Baronet

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC , was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...

, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the de facto head of the Government of Northern Ireland. No such office was provided for in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. However the Lord Lieutenant, as with Governors-General in other Westminster Systems such as in Canada, chose to appoint someone...

. He had already been created a Baronet in 1918. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1974. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited. Formerly, most of them were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999 only ninety-two are permitted to do so...

s that remain in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a cross-bencher.

Viscounts Craigavon (1927)

• James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC , was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...
  
   (1871–1940)
• James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon
  James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon
  James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon was a British hereditary peer who sat in the House of Lords.He was the son of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, he succeeded to his father's peerage upon his death in 1940.He was educated at Eton and served in the...
  
   (1906–1974)
• Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon
  Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon
  Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon is a British peer and chartered accountant. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999; he sits as a crossbencher....
  
  (b. 1941)

There is no heir to the baronetcy and viscountcy.