Sir James Craig (16 October 1861 – 12 July 1933) was an

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professor of medicine and an independent politician.Obituary, ''BMJ'', 22 July 1933 Craig was born at Castlecatt,

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. He was educated at the

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and

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, where he obtained the 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

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in the same year. He was physician to

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and consultant physician to

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, among others. He was King's Professor of Medicine at Trinity College. He was elected to the

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at the 1921 general election, representing the

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constituency as an

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. He did not participate in the

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. He was re-elected as a

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for the same constituency at the 1922 general election and became a member of the

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. 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

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. He was 71. The by-election for his seat was won by another independent candidate

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. 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.

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