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SIR THOMAS CRAIG (c. 1538–1608)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:CRAIG (c. 1538–1608)  , Scottish jurist and poet, was See also:born about 1538 . It is probable that he was the eldest son of See also:William See also:Craig of Craigfintray, or Craigston, in See also:Aberdeenshire, but beyond the fact that he was in some way related to the Craigfintray See also:family nothing regarding his See also:birth is known with certainty . He was educated at St See also:Andrews, where he took the B.A. degree in 1555 . From St Andrews he went to See also:France, to study the See also:canon and the See also:civil See also:law . He returned to See also:Scotland about 1561, and was admitted See also:advocate in See also:February 1563 . In 1564 he was appointed See also:justice-depute by the justice-See also:general, See also:Archibald, See also:earl of See also:Argyll; and in this capacity he presided at many of the criminal trials of the See also:period . In 1573 he was appointed See also:sheriff-depute of See also:Edinburgh, and in 16o6 See also:procurator for the See also:church . He never became a See also:lord of session, a circumstance that was unquestionably due to his own choice . It is said that he refused the See also:honour of See also:knighthood which the See also:king wished to confer on him in 1604, when he came to See also:London as one of the Scottish commissioners regarding the See also:union between the kingdoms—the only See also:political See also:object he seems to have cared about; but in accordance with See also:James's commands he has always been styled and reputed a See also:knight . Craig was married to See also:Helen, daughter of See also:Heriot of Lumphoy in Midlothian, by whom he had four sons and three daughters . His eldest son, See also:Sir See also:Lewis Craig (1569-1622), was raised to the See also:bench in 1604, and among his other descendants are several well-known namesin the See also:list of Scottish lawyers . He died on the 26th of February 16o8 .

Except his poems, the only one of Craig's See also:

works which appeared during his lifetime was his See also:Jus feudale (1603; ed . R . See also:Burnet, 1655; See also:Leipzig, 1716; ed . J . See also:Baillie 1732) . The object of this See also:treatise was to assimilate the See also:laws of See also:England and Scotland, but, instead of this, it was an important See also:factor in See also:building up and solidifying the law of Scotland into a See also:separate See also:system . Other works were De unione regnorum Britanniae tractatus, De jure successionis regni Angliae and De hominio disputatio . See also:Translations of the last two have been published, and in 1910 an edition of the De Unione appeared, with See also:translation and notes by C . S . See also:Terry . Craig's first poem, an See also:Epithalamium in honour of the See also:marriage of See also:Mary See also:queen of Scots and See also:Darnley, appeared in 1565 . Most of his poems have been reprinted in the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum .

See P . F . See also:

Tytler, See also:Life of Craig (1823) ; Life prefixed to Baillie's edition of the Jus feudale .

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