Douglas McCraith

Sir Douglas McCraith, JP (1 January 1878 – 16 September 1952) was a British solicitor, Conservative local politician and sportsperson from Nottingham.

Early life McCraith was born on New Year's Day 1878 in Nottingham, the elder son of Sir James William McCraith, a solicitor and prominent Nottingham politician, and his wife, Maria Elizabeth, née Dickinson. After schooling at Harrow, McCraith went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899 and taking up his Master of Arts degree in 1903. In 1902, he was admitted a solicitor, and subsequently became a partner in his father's firm Maples and McCraith. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1928 and President of the Nottingham Incorporated Law Society in 1930, and served as Chairman of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Nottingham from 1936 to 1951 and then Chairman of the Nottingham Bench between 1951 and 1952. In 1939, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor. Between 1941 and 1945, McCraith chaired the Price Regulation Committee for the North Midland Region, The elder McCraith last lived at Holme Lodge, Bingham, and died on 16 September 1952.