Background
He was born on 13 July 1882 in Ardentinny in Argyllshire in northern Scotland, the son of Rev Robert Craig, the local minister.
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Robert Craig
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He was schooled at the local parish school and then attended Madras College in Street Andrews University.
Career
He left a large collection of fossils now housed in the collection of Street Andrews University. Several other brothers grew to fame in the military: Brigade Major Henry David Cook Craig Military Cross. Lieutenant Falconer Gray Craig Military Cross.
Cpt Archibald Douglas Craig. In 1909 he began lecturing in Geology at Dundee, then a branch of Street Andrews University, moving to Street Andrews in 1912.
In the First World War he served first in the Durham Light Infantry then in the 5th South Staffordshire Regiment (rising to the rank of Captain).
From 1918 to 1921 he acted as the Government Geologist to Nyasaland in Africa. He then received a professorship at Edinburgh University and remained there from 1921 until retiral, lecturing in Economic Geology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925.
His proposers were Thomas James Jehu, John Horne, Ben Peach, and Robert Campbell.
He served as a President of the Edinburgh Geological Society 1934-1936 and Trustee from 1939-1948. He died on 28 March 1956.
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Keith Medal
The Keith Medal is a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.The Keith Medal is a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.