Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle (28 February 1883 – 29 September 1944) was a Scottish

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politician.

Life

Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at

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(where he was President of the

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in 1905) and being called to the bar in 1908.''The Times'' 30 September 1944, page 6: Obituary, Lord Craigmyle. In 1913, he married Lady Margaret Cargill Mackay, who gave him one son and three daughters. During the

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he served in the Royal Marine Artillery and was involved in the Battle of the Somme. Outside Parliament, he was a director of the Bank of England and Chairman of P & O. The son of the

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Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle (23 May 1850 – 28 June 1937), known as The Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish radical Liberal Party politician and judge. The son of Alexander Shaw of Dunfermline, Fife, Craigmyle was educated at t ...

, he succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1937. Upon his own death in 1944, aged 61, he was succeeded by his only son Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw (1923–1998).

Parliamentary career

He was elected unopposed as the

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(MP) for the Kilmarnock Burghs at a by-election in 1915, and held the seat until its abolition for the 1918 general election. He was then elected as a

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for the new

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of Kilmarnock, retaining the seat as a Liberal in

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. He

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from the

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on 12 November 1923 by the procedural device of accepting a nominal appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. no by-election was held, and the seat remained vacant when

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was dissolved on 16 November for the 1923 general election.

Arms

References

External links

Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle obituary
independent.co.uk. Accessed 12 December 2022. * 1883 births 1944 deaths Shaw, Alexander Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Shaw, Alexander Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom British Army personnel of World War I Shaw, Alexander Shaw, Alexander Shaw, Alexander Shaw, Alexander UK MPs who inherited peerages Shaw, Alexander Sons of life peers {{Scotland-Liberal-UK-MP-stub