James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon (2 March 1906 – 18 May 1974), was a British

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who sat in the

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. He was the son of

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC Privy Council of Northern Ireland, PC (NI) Deputy Lieutenant, DL (8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940), was a leading Unionists (Ireland), Irish unionist and a ...

, first

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and Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Craig. He succeeded to his father's peerage upon his death in 1940. He was educated at

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and served in the

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. He later worked as a Liaison and Entertainments Officer on the Orient Line and the

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on its Liner, Cruise and Round World Voyages. Lord Craigavon was married to Angela Fiona (1918-2007), daughter of Percy Tatchell, MRCS, and had three children:

Issue

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Janitha Stormont Craig (born 31 August 1940) in 1965 married Gordon Robert MacInnes, eldest son of Robert Wood MacInnes, of

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and has issue. **Avila MacInnes (born 19 October 1967) **Córdova MacInnes (born 10 December 1972) **Jimena MacInnes (born 20 March 1975) * The Rt. Hon. Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon *

Jacaranda Fiona Craig (born 8 January 1949) in 1972 married Dudley Francis Macdonald, of 26 Paroman Towers, George Street, London W1 and has issue. They divorced in 1983. **Toby James Francis Macdonald (born 19 August 1975) **Rose Carole Macdonald (born 18 January 1978)

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