Thomas Craig (jurist)

Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton (c. 1538 – 26 February 1608) was a Scottish jurist and poet.

[1] In Edinburgh he lived on the lower half of Warriston Close off the north side of the Royal Mile.

His rural residence, as his title infers, was Riccarton House, a few miles west of Edinburgh.

In 1564, he was appointed justice-depute by the justice-general, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll; and in this capacity he presided at many of the criminal trials of the period in Edinburgh, and in 1606 was made procurator for the church.

[6] Editions of his works include: Craig's first poem, an epithalamium in honour of the wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry, Lord Darnley, appeared in 1565.

His first wife Helen Hamilton of 1573, who died in 1575, was the niece or granddaughter of Robert Richardson.