Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet
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Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, KCB, PC (18 October 1846 – 16 March 1927)[1] was a Scottish Unionist politician.
He was appointed as a junior examiner of the Committee of Council on Education in 1871 and promoted, in 1878, to the position of Senior examiner until 1885. In this year Scotland got an independent Committee of Council on Education known as the Scotch Education Department. Craik was appointed as its secretary, a post he held from 1885 to 1904.[2] In October 1901 he received a degree in law (LL.D.) from the University of St Andrews.[3]
He was an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1906 to 1918,[1] and for the Combined Scottish Universities[4] from 1918 until his death in 1927.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1888,[5] and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1897.[6][7] He was made a Privy Councillor in 1918, and in the New Year Honours List 1926, he was made a baronet, of Kennoway, in the County of Fife.[2][8]