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

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politician.

Life

Shaw was educated at

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, the

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and

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"Craigmyle, 2nd Baron, (Alexander Shaw) (28 Feb. 1883–29 Sept. 1944)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2007 (where he was President of the

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in 1905).''The Times'' 30 September 1944, page 6: Obituary, Lord Craigmyle. A lawyer by profession, he was called to the bar in 1908. 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

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. Outside Parliament, he was a director of the

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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 (UK), Liberal Party politician and judge. Life The son of Alexander Shaw of Dunfermline, Fife, Cra ...

, 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 member of parliament (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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, 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

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. 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
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