James Craig (physician)

For other people named James Craig, see James Craig (disambiguation).

Sir James Craig
Teachta Dála
In office May 1921 – 12 July 1933
Constituency	Dublin University
Personal details
Born	(1861-10-16)16 October 1861 Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland
Died	12 July 1933(1933-07-12) (aged 71) Dublin, Ireland
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Kathleen Millar
Children	3
Education	Coleraine Academical Institution
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin

Sir James Craig FRCPI (16 October 1861 – 12 July 1933) was an Irish professor of medicine and an independent politician.

Craig was born at Castlecatt, Bushmills, County Antrim. He was educated at the Coleraine Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin, where he obtained a B.A. and M.B., B.Ch. degrees of the university in 1885. He proceeded M.D. in 1891, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in the same year. He was a physician to Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital and consultant physician to Dr Steevens' Hospital, among others. He was King's Professor of Medicine at Trinity College.

He was elected to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland at the 1921 general election, representing the Dublin University constituency as an independent Unionist. He did not participate in the Second Dáil. He was re-elected as a Teachta Dála for the same constituency at the 1922 general election and became a member of the Third Dáil. He was re-elected at the next five general elections, but died in Dublin four months after the 1933 general election, in which he had been returned to the 8th Dáil. He was 71. The by-election for his seat was won by another independent candidate Robert Rowlette.

The Sir James Craig Memorial Prize has been awarded annually in Trinity College since 1952 to the student gaining first place at the final examination in medicine.

External links

• "Craig, Sir James" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. pp. 49-50  – via Wikisource.