Ernest Craig

Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet (1859 – 9 April 1933)^[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Crewe division of Cheshire at a by-election in July 1912 after the death of his Liberal predecessor, Walter McLaren.^[2] Craig did not stand for re-election in 1918, when the seat was won a Coalition Liberal, and his next candidacy was at the 1924 general election, when he won the seat in a straight contest with the sitting Labour Party MP Edward Hemmerde. He stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.^[3]

In the King's Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire.^[4]^[5]

Ernest Craig, before becoming a politician, along with many other Englishmen went west to the US and to New Mexico in particular. He owned the Last Chance Mine in Mogollon, Grant County, New Mexico, and a picture survives of him in 1908 seated in a motor vehicle at Hudson Springs (now Faywood Hot Springs). He introduced innovative methods of extracting gold. He also established a horse and buggy transport for mining company property movement between Mogollon and Silver City. His only child, Ernestine, later acquired the Mimbres Hot Springs, a few miles from Faywood. Her son Craig Wheaton-Smith managed the Mimbres Hot Springs ranch, and her grandson Simon Wheaton-Smith (Ernest Craig's great-grandson) also resides in Silver City, New Mexico.

Citations

↑ Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages.
↑ Craig 1989, p. 231.
↑ Craig 1983, p. 303.
↑ "No. 33280". The London Gazette. 31 May 1927. p. 3603.
↑ "No. 33292". The London Gazette. 8 July 1927. p. 4406.

Sources

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [First published 1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 303. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 231. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
"House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2009.