Lewis Craig

Sir Lewis Craig, Lord Wrightslands (1569-1622) was a Scottish judge.

Craig was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Craig of Riccarton and his wife, Helen Heriot, daughter of Heriot of Traboun.

Lewis was educated at the then newly-created Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1597. He studied the civil law at Poitiers, was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1600, knighted and appointed an ordinary lord of session in 1604–5.[1]

He inherited his father's properties, Riccarton House, west of Edinburgh, plus a townhouse on Warriston Close off the Royal Mile, on his father's death in 1608.[2]

Craig married Beatrice Chyrnesyde. They had a son Thomas, and a daughter Janet, who married George Pringle.[3]

References

"Craig, Lewis" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
James Grant, Old and New Edinburgh vol. 1 (London, 1882), p. 226.
Adams, Sharon. "Craig, Lewis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6578. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] "Craig, Lewis" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[2] James Grant, Old and New Edinburgh vol. 1 (London, 1882), p. 226.

[3] Adams, Sharon. "Craig, Lewis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6578. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)