Sir Douglas McCraith, JP (1 January 1878 – 16 September 1952) was a British solicitor, Conservative local politician and sportsperson from Nottingham.
McCraith was born on New Year's Day 1878 in Nottingham, the elder son of Sir James William McCraith, a solicitor and prominent Nottingham politician, and his wife, Maria Elizabeth, née Dickinson.
[1] Unsurprisingly, given that his father and uncle, Sir John McCraith, were prominent Unionists, the younger McCraith was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Party and served for thirty years as President of the East Nottingham Conservative Association.
Between 1941 and 1945, McCraith chaired the Price Regulation Committee for the North Midland Region,[1] and in this capacity, he "sought out and publicised what he considered to be examples of unjustified profiteering", complaining about the perceived shortcomings of the Central Price Regulation Board.
[1] In 1915, McCraith married Phyllis Marguerite, of St John's Wood, London,[5] a daughter of A. D’Ewes Lynam; they had two sons,[1] one of whom, Patrick James Danvers (1916–1998), MC, TD, DL, was also a prominent solicitor and served with distinction in World War II, receiving the Military Cross in 1943; he commanded the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry between 1953 and 1957 and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1963.