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He was born on 24 February 1868 in Buckhaven the son of Captain T M Craig, a pioneer in the development of Borneo, and his wife Agnes.
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Education
He was educated at Daniel Stewart"s College in Edinburgh, where he was school dux for 1885. He then attended Edinburgh University and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating Master of Arts in 1892.
Career
In 1893 he became a Master, teaching mathematics at Eton College then at Winchester College from 1895. In 1896 he moved to Egypt to work for the Egyptian government. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to cartography.
His proposers were George Chrystal, William J MacDonald, John Alison and John Brown Clark.
He returned to Britain during the First World War and was based in London at the Ministry of Food. In the aftermath of the war he was creator Food Controller 1918-1920 for Upper Silesia (now Southwest Poland).
In 1925 he returned to Egypt as Controller General, then, from 1928 to 1934, was Financial Secretary to the Egyptian Census. In 1934 (aged already 66) he was made United Kingdom Government Commissioner of Customs.
He finally retired from employment in 1947, aged 79.
He still spent much of his time still in Egypt. In 1942 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services in Egypt. He was sadly killed aged 83 in a deliberate fire at the Turf Club in Cairo, set by rioters on 26 January during the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
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Egyptian Irrigation, Volume 2
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