Ernest Craig

Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet (1859 – 9 April 1933){{sfn|Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages}} 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.{{sfn|Craig|1989|p=231}} 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.{{sfn|Craig|1983|p=303}}

In the King's Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire.{{London Gazette

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| issue = 33280

| date = 31 May 1927

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| issue = 33292

| date = 8 July 1927

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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.

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{{cite book| title = British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 | edition = 3rd

| last = Craig | first = F. W. S. | year = 1983

| author-link = F. W. S. Craig

| orig-year = First published 1969

| publisher = Parliamentary Research Services | location = Chichester

| page = 303

| isbn = 0-900178-06-X

}}

{{cite book| title = British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 | edition = 2nd

| last = Craig | first = F. W. S. | year = 1989

| author-link = F. W. S. Craig

| orig-year = First published 1974

| publisher = Parliamentary Research Services | location = Chichester

| page = 231

| isbn = 0-900178-27-2

}}

{{cite web| title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)

| work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages

| url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons6.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180730180447/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons6.htm

| access-date = 6 May 2009 | archive-date = 30 July 2018

| url-status = usurped

| ref = {{harvid|Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages}}

}}