Lieutenant-Commander Norman Carlyle Craig KC (15 November 1868 – 14 October 1919), was the Conservative

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in the United Kingdom for the

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from 1910 until his death in 1919.

Biography

Born on 15 November 1868, the son of William Simpson Craig, a doctor from Ham Common. He was brother of the prominent

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Sir Maurice Craig. Craig was educated at

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and as a classical scholar at

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. He was called to the Bar in 1892, appointed King's Counsel in 1909, and as a Bencher of the

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in 1919. In January 1910, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet, and was re-elected in 1918. In 1912, he booked a passage to America on board the RMS ''Titanic''. However, he cancelled his trip and was not on board when the vessel sank on 15 April. He cancelled his trip at such short notice that his name still appeared on the printed list of the ''Titanic's'' first-class passengers. This led to early newspaper reports that he was among the victims of the sinking. During the

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he became a Sub-Lieutenant in the

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. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. In 1918, Craig married Dorothy Stone of

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. He died on 14 October 1919 after failing to recover from an unspecified operation.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Craig, Norman Carlyle 1868 births 1919 deaths People educated at Bedford School Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1910 Members of the Inner Temple Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Royal Naval Reserve personnel