James Craig (physician)

Sir James Craig FRCPI (16 October 1861 – 12 July 1933) was an Irish professor of medicine and an independent politician.

He was educated at the Coleraine Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin, where he obtained a B.A.

He was re-elected as a Teachta Dála for the same constituency at the 1922 general election and became a member of the Third Dáil.

[2] The by-election for his seat was won by another independent candidate Robert Rowlette.

The Sir James Craig Memorial Prize has been awarded annually in Trinity College since 1952 to the student gaining first place at the final examination in medicine.