Sir James Gibson- Craig, first baronet

(1765-1850)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Craig Sir James Gibson (1765-1850) Knight Politician DNB: Craig, Sir James Gibson, first baronet (1765-1850), lawyer and politician LBT ID: JaCraig1850	B/BAP: 1765-10-11 DIED: 1850-03-06
SOURCES: DNB; thepeerage.com
Educated at Edinburgh High School he was Writer to the Signet (1786) and a prominent Foxite Whig in Edinburgh.
REFERENCES TO Sir James Gibson- Craig, first baronet: Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 25 May 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 9 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 13: 1826 Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 13