Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle

Craigmyle sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hawick Burghs from 1892 to 1909[3] and served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1894 to 1895 and as Lord Advocate from December 1905[4] to 1909.

He resigned from parliament and ministerial office and was created a life peer as Baron Shaw, of Dunfermline in the County of Fife, on 20 February 1909,[5] so that he could sit in the House of Lords and serve as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

[7] He died in June 1937, aged 87, and was succeeded in the hereditary barony by his son Alexander.

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