[1] Maxwell Craig was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1931.
He was educated in Bradford then at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford.
After National Service as a Second Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders followed by several years as a Civil Servant he commenced a Bachelor of Divinity degree course at New College of the University of Edinburgh in 1961.
In 1990 he was appointed as the first General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland, serving until 1999.
Full name and title: The Reverend Maxwell Davidson Craig MA BD ThM.