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Sir William Gibson Craig, 2nd Baronet FRSE (2 August 1797 – 12 March 1878), was a Scottish Advocate and politician. ==Life== He was born the first son of Sir James Gibson-Craig, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Anne Thomson. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then privately in Yorkshire.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 William became an advocate in 1820. He was Lord Clerk Register and Keeper of the Signet from 1862 until his death. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1863. He was the Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1837 to 1841 and for Edinburgh from 1841 to 1852. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Lord John Russell's government from 1846 to 1852.〔 He became a member of the Highland Society in 1824. In 1828 he wass elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Allan. He lived in Riccarton House to the south-west of Edinburgh.〔http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8367042〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Gibson-Craig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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