Background
CRAIG, John Walker was born in 1848 in Strabane, Company Tyrone. Youngest son of late Thomas Craig, of Ardcoen, Strabane.
CRAIG, John Walker was born in 1848 in Strabane, Company Tyrone. Youngest son of late Thomas Craig, of Ardcoen, Strabane.
Studied at Raphoe Royal School. Queen’s College Belfast. 1st classical Scholar, Peel Prizeman, and Senior Scholar in Classics, Queen’s College, Belfast.
Gold medallist, Queen’s University in Ireland.
Irish Barrister 1871. Crown Prosecutor, Company Louth, 97. Senior Crown Prosecutor, Company Monaghan, 1892-1897.
Inner Barrister 1889. Senior Counsel for Belfast Corporation and for Belfast Water Commissioners, 1892-1897. Contested South Down Liberal Unionist, 1892.
Commissioner of Education in Ireland. Cominissionerof Intermediate Education, 1903. Governor of the Royal Hibernian Military School, 1898. King’s Counsel; County Court Judge of the counties of Monaghan and Fermanagh since 1807.
Club: St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Bicycling, reading.